Solar disk

This entry is about the currently fictional solar disk proposal, this is NOT a Alderson_disk, nor is this entry its original source.

Solar Disk
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A Solar disk is currently a fictional concept of an circular or oval shaped disk shaped artificial station or artificial landmass equal to or greater in size diameter wise to the total size of a solar system and beyond(inner + outer planets) with reasonably appropriate depth possibly used by proposed future advanced galaxy spanning civilizations as a capital for the reason that no single planet, halo or city-ship or other inhabitable object could serve as both a capital city or planet for population and a center for administrative control, (imagine if you will with a civilization that span's several galaxies who's member planet's stretch to say 100 billion inhabited world's simply to send one ambassador with no aide's(unlikely to happen at least 1 to 5 would be a more reasonable conservative assumption) to a center of administrative control would result in massive population requirements at least conservtively 200 to at most 500 billion of this body alone, this is ignoring central financial(including taxation), policing, law and military control and most importantly a centralized trade & culture hub. Additionally it may be people would likely what to visit the capital in addition live there, so a future civilization may find even hypothetical halo's being widespread population center's replacing planet's as the most populas inhabitable object's would still be unsuitable for these purposes in terms of potential population support, it could also be used as a capital of a universal(universe wide) senate of civilizations.

Assuming massive populations of a civilization with 100 billion planets, a capital for such a civilisation could be in the form a large solar disk's or several smaller one's clustered about.

Solar disk can be measured by average earth length's taking the radius to be the distance between earth's sun and pluto as a 1.0 with 0.5 being the smallest kind with a radius of half that, a solar disk with a 2.0 solar disk being twice as massive and so on depending on the needs of the civilization or collection of civilization's using them. So a 7.5 solar disk could prove to be a civilization capital for a 25 billion galaxy spanning ultimate civilization with 2.0-4.0 solar disk's for military, finance and police center's (consider the additional use as an armed station of that size could be seen to impose law an order on a large area and as a symbol of stabilization and authority and smaller 0.5 or 1.0 solar disk's located within each galaxy to serve as local capital's to a galaxy's with heavy population's.

A solar disk is capable of supporting hundred's of trillion's and upward's population wise of human size creature's depending on size not to mention ship's and so on, practically the creation of such an object would require advanced technological cooperation on a unprecedented scale stripping thousand's to millions of system's of their asteroid belt resource's merely to have the required raw material's alone, one would also have to consider even with relativity hollow room's as one finds inhabitable structures or station's today the strength of alloy or whatever used for its construction would exert tremendous gravitational forces upon the center and across the entire station structure additional creating a heavy natural gravity field which may make it impossible to complete or make so large and so on, so practical considerations on how such a future near-dyson sphere scale structure like this might be created we would have develop scientific understanding to the point of being able to control or design control of gravitational forces to the point of making such a project feasible, with a universe of infinite possibilities perhaps in hundred's of thousand's of years(or merely thousands) time we may develop the technology or understanding to design such a structure and millions of years later maybe even require it, until then it is relegated to the realm of science fiction.

Practical consideration's and calculations needed for this article.

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