Ringworld - Wikipedia
WEBRingworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his companions on a mission to the Ringworld, an enormous rotating ring, an alien construct in space 186 million miles (299 million kilometres) in diameter.
Will we ever… build ringworlds? - BBC
WEBJun 9, 2015 · (Credit: Science Photo Library) Immense floating structures could become humanity’s home, harnessing the power of stars. But, Peter Ray Allison writes, building them will be a colossal challenge....
Why is Larry Niven's Ringworld Unstable? - Physics Stack Exchange
WEBOct 20, 2012 · In his 1970 science fiction novel Ringworld, author Larry Niven describes the eponymous Ringworld, a gigantic structure shaped as a ring with a radius of around 1 AU, rotating around a star in the center of the ring.
Cosmic Megastructures - Could We Build a Ringworld? - Popular Mechanics
WEBSep 4, 2014 · Deep Space. Could We Build a Ringworld? In our cosmic megastructures series, PopMech explores some of the key engineering and design challenges in constructing gigantic structures for use by...
Megastructure - Wikipedia
WEBA Ringworld (or Niven Ring) is an artificial ring encircling a star, rotating faster than orbital velocity to create artificial gravity on its inner surface.
The Ringworld: A Megastructure of Impossibility and Imagination
WEBMay 28, 2024 · The Ringworld is the ultimate “what if?” scenario for a technologically advanced civilization with mastery over its environment. It pushes our understanding of engineering and our potential to manipulate matter and energy on truly cosmic scales.
Ringworld | THE UNIVERSE OF LARRY NIVEN
WEBSummary: Louis Wu, a Kzinti diplomat Speaker-to-Animals and the genetically lucky human Teela Brown are recruited by a member of a long-lost race to investigate an immense artifact outside Known Space: the Ringworld.
"Impossible" Technologies #1: Ringworlds — Trevor B. Williams
WEBAug 5, 2019 · Coined by Larry Niven in his 1970 novel of the same name, a ringworld is an artificial structure designed to provide Earth-like living conditions around a star. In Ringworld, this construct is nearly a million miles wide and approximately has a diameter of Earth’s orbit: about 600 million miles in circumference. These numbers are daunting ...
Ringworld Theory: Did Teela Brown Have Bad Luck?
WEBJun 21, 2021 · In Larry Niven’s Ringworld, the alien Puppeteers have secretly been selectively breeding humans for being lucky, which they believe (correctly) is actually a psychic probability manipulation ability.
Ring theory - Wikipedia
WEBRing theory studies the structure of rings, their representations, or, in different language, modules, special classes of rings (group rings, division rings, universal enveloping algebras), as well as an array of properties that proved to be of interest both within the theory itself and for its applications, such as homological properties and ...
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