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by technolem 4997 days ago
Won't gravity stop this from happening? Seriously, the shell of the sphere will be balanced on the outskirts of a gravity well right? So if it moves this will move the center of the gravity well and both the star and sphere should fall back towards the center.
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According to Newtonian gravity, an object inside a sphere experiences zero net gravity from the sphere, and vice versa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_shell