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Fascinating.
In Larry Niven’s ” Ringworld” there are some extraordinary implications of living on a Dyson Sphere, and I have copied part of the Wikipedia entry because I didn’t trust my memory of reading the books years ago…

Concepts reused[edit]
In addition to the two aliens, Niven includes a number of concepts from his other Known Space stories:

The Puppeteers’ General Products hulls, which are impervious to any known force except visible light and gravity, and for a long time thought indestructible by anything except antimatter. The Fleet of Worlds prequels reveal two other ways that the hulls can be destroyed.
The Slaver stasis field, which causes time in the enclosed volume to stand still; since time has for all intents and purposes ceased for an object in stasis, no harm can come to anything within the field.
The idea that luck is a genetic trait that can be favored by selective breeding.
The tasp, a device that remotely stimulates the pleasure center of the brain; it temporarily incapacitates its target and is extremely psychologically addictive. If the subject cannot, for whatever reason, get access to the device, intense depression can result, often to the point of madness or suicide. To use a tasp on someone from hiding, relieving them of their anger or depression, is called “making their day”.
Boosterspice, a drug that restores or indefinitely preserves youth.
Scrith, the metal-like substance of which the Ringworld is built (and presumably the shadow squares and wires too), that has a tensile strength nearly equal in magnitude to the strong nuclear force. This makes it an example of unobtainium. This is similar to the Pak Protector’s “twing” used in other Larry Niven stories.
Impact armor, a flexible form of clothing that hardens instantly into a rigid form stronger than steel when rapidly deformed, similar to certain types of bulletproof vests.
The hyperspace shunt, an engine for faster-than-light travel, but slow enough (1 light-year per 3 days, ~122 c) to keep the galaxy vast and unknown; the new “quantum II hyperspace shunt”, developed by the Puppeteers but not yet released to humans, can cross a light-year in just 1.25 minutes (~421 000 c).
Point-to-point teleportation at the speed of light is possible with transfer booths (on Earth) and stepping disks (on the Puppeteer homeworld); on Earth, people’s sense of place and global position has been lost due to instantaneous travel; cities and cultures have blended together.
A theme well covered in the novel is that of cultures suffering technological breakdowns who then proceed to revert to belief systems along religious lines. Most Ringworld societies have forgotten that they live on an artificial structure, and now attribute the phenomena and origin of their world to divine power.

I posted a reply about Dyson Spheres but it has since disappeared.
Perhaps I’m being edited ?
In any case I want to mention the LHC As far as I recall whenever Dr.Farrell writes about the LHC he talks about two accelerators being involved in the creation of a torsion event which he believes might have effects upon our Sun. ( I stand to be corrected on this ) I am aware that the facility utilizes three accelerators; a small initial accelerator, then another known as Atlas, then the large machine. This triadic collection calls to mind the topological metaphor and brings into focus the premise of Cixin’s novels, that is, three suns vectoring around each other in a weird celestial dance towards doom….
As for manipulated protons and Atlantis and Versailles perhaps I’m over-reaching. But it all seems rather curious and might be an example of nested teleologies.

(I have tried six times to post this little paragraph, and I was told I was using an inappropriate word – its a bit frustrating because I had to completely re-word my post, which had nothing wrong with it in the first place….)
Sounds like the movie “Ender’s Game”, where the children think they are playing a war game, but it is in fact a reality. A metaphor for humanity, which has unwittingly been drawn into making the chains of its own prison. Now we are faced with devices that have the potential to destroy on a galactic scale, using weaponised planets.