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?
Oh shit. I thought that was the case, but second-guessed myself. Thanks!
If it helps, it's best not to think of one object "pulling" on another. The easiest way to conceptualize gravity is to picture a sheet of fabric stretched out. If you place a bowling ball and a tennis ball on the fabric both objects will cause the shape of the fabric to change. The bowling ball, being the more massive object, causes more perturbation, but the effect of the tennis ball still exists.