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by mcbits 1585 days ago
Maybe stars are the Dyson spheres, and their emissions are the waste energy that wasn't worth harvesting.
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The spectral signature would be different if that happened. If all of the stars are Dyson spheres, then… maybe our models about stars are fundamentally wrong. But I doubt it; the maths to work out what the signature should be (given the composition) is pretty simple. Take a blackbody, put spectral lines as measured in the lab onto it, then redshift it.