Freeman Dyson
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Freeman John Dyson was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, cond
Dyson at the Long Now Seminar in San Francisco, California, in 2005
Freeman Dyson at Harvard cropped
Freeman Dyson in 2007 at the Institute for Advanced Study
Dyson sphere
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A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output. The concept is a thought experiment that attempts to imagine how a spacefari
Freeman Dyson
…genetically engineered plant capable of growing in a comet; the Dyson series, a perturbative series where each term is represented by Feynman diagrams; the Dyson sphere, a thought experiment that attempts to explain how a space-faring civilization would meet its energy requirements with a hypothetical megastructure…
A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star
Freeman Dyson, who explored the concept from a scientific perspective