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Originally Posted by Sticks
So how did Larry Niven work out his Ring World?, I understand that he got quite a load of flack at a sci fi convention once by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists - or was that the inventor of the infinite improbability drive 
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His physics was good; a neat hybrid of the Dyson sphere and the rotating habitat. The "flak" came from MIT students at the 1970 World Science Fiction Convention, who pointed out that he hadn't explored the (in)stability of Ringworld's rotation around its sun.
Grant Hutchison