Re: Dyson Dumbells: Was: Re: the ultimate refrigerator

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
16 Dec 1997 15:19:53 +0100


Michael Lorrey <retroman@together.net> writes:

> This gives me a solution to the Cosmic Filter dillemma. Rather than a
> Dyson Sphere radiating its encircled star's output as black body
> radiation, the inside surface would be coated in thermal superconductor
> material.

Are there any thermal superconductors? I have a strong feeling this is
a myth started by Larry Niven's mistake in some of his books that
electrical superconductors are thermal superconductors. Of course, I
see nothing wrong the idea of phonons somehow forming coherent pairs
or something similar, but it appears very unlikely.

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