{"id":3926723,"date":"2026-06-29T19:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/testing-the-orbital-mechanics-of-giant-mirrors\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:03:04","slug":"testing-the-orbital-mechanics-of-giant-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/testing-the-orbital-mechanics-of-giant-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing the orbital mechanics of giant mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Giant mirrors in space have been a staple of science fiction for decades. But so far, there&#8217;s been very little work looking at the actual physics behind the concept\u2014possibly because we&#8217;re still so far from making them ourselves. Still, they could potentially serve as a passive technosignature if we manage to find one. In order to do that, though, we have to understand what we&#8217;re looking for. That is the purpose of a new paper, available as a preprint on arXiv, by Shauna Sallmen of the University of Wisconsin\u2013La Crosse and Eric Korpela of UC Berkeley.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-orbital-mechanics-giant-mirrors.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant mirrors in space have been a staple of science fiction for decades. But so far, there&#8217;s been very little work looking at the actual physics behind the concept\u2014possibly because we&#8217;re still so far from making them ourselves. Still, they could potentially serve as a passive technosignature if we manage to find one. In order [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}