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 posted this in another comment, but:
you could do a ring a little bit bigger or smaller than earth’s orbit. at that radius the centrifugal force from orbiting near c would be pretty mild. sunlight takes ~8 min to reach earth, so one trip around the ring at near-c would be like 25 min. getting a human up to that speed would take a long time though. at one gee of acceleration you’d need around a year to approach lightspeed unless i fucked up the math.