With circular motion, you can spin threads, mill grain, move a wheel forward, drill holes, bring water upwards, generate electricity spinning turbines, create gravity, defeat gravity. It’s just too OP
With circular motion, you can spin threads, mill grain, move a wheel forward, drill holes, bring water upwards, generate electricity spinning turbines, create gravity, defeat gravity. It’s just too OP
Ok I’m sorry. Yes, it likely would require some minimal active control to maintain stability. You have a point about perturbations from other bodies. But the Trojan asteroids and Lagrange points have minimal effect. And it’s not like the gravitational field around the Sun actually changes that much, percentage wise, unless you’re right up close to the planets. The Trojans and Lagrange points are just examples of locations where objects gently placed in certain locations can maintain stability.
Jupiter’s Hill Sphere has a radius of 50 million kilometers (actually much smaller than the outer gas giants.) Its orbital radius is more like 780 million km.
Now, this does mean it would be quite difficult to build a Solar System-sized orbital ring right near the orbital path of gas giant, or any other planet. You could build a ring around Jupiter, but building a Solar-centric ring right near Jupiter’s orbit would be a problem.