What if you took the principle of magnetic acceleration, created a bunch of acceleration gateways in space, and then shot space trains through it? Have catching gates on the opposite end for the deceleration part.
What's the maximum speed that magnetic acceleration can accelerate an object to in a vacuum before the object is travelling so fast that the magnetic effect can no longer impact upon it as it passes the gates?
I wanna build some fucking space trains. What can I read that's explored this?
I think the bigger question is where the space tracks start and end. The origins and destinations for space travel would need to stay in the same relative locations in 3 dimensions and all that, so planets are right out.
Use a black hole like a catcher's mitt.
i think you'd need an aimable train-launcher at either end and some way to clear stuff out of the way between them