Quote: Mister Skin

Dyson spheres need great big walls
To keep the world from spilling out
They make them out of buckyballs
And use gravitons for grout

I came across this little poem on this page (how I got there I couldn’t tell you). It’s credited there to “Mister Skin,” which I assume is an internet handle, and whom I know not at all; I can’t find this anywhere else online, though, so I’m just going to go with what’s there.

Just a cute poem. Dyson spheres, for those not entirely geeky, are hypothetical structures that would be built surrounding the outer edges of an active star, making a kind of perfect energy absorber, and perhaps allowing the inner surface to be used as a habitat. (Actually, the linked site is a pretty good reference.) Buckyballs are molecules of buckminsterfullerene, carbon atoms in a large “geodesic” configuration. Gravitons are a product of quantum theory, the hypothetical particles of gravity.