Timeline for Can active-support ringworlds be built?
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| Sep 1, 2020 at 12:29 | comment | added | Jasen | the pellets are sidereal stationary and the ring is rotating around them, the weight of the pellets (in stellar gravity) is compressing the ring. | |
| Sep 1, 2020 at 9:13 | comment | added | mart | The coils can only accelerate the pellets along the tube, this would apply a torque on the whole ring around the central axis. I don't see how that helps. | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 16:21 | comment | added | Ash | The entire thing is essentially static, except the pellets. Coils are connected to the tube. The weight of the tube would contribute some tension to the equation, which factors into the maths of how much force to apply at each coil. Also the tube need not be load bearing - it just needs to keep the pellet stream in vacuum. So long as the members connect to the coils somehow the design should work. | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 16:07 | comment | added | TheDyingOfLight | Isn't the tube itself spinning with the structure? How do you prevent it from flying apart due to the centrifugal force? | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 15:46 | history | answered | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |