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?
What if you had A LOT of separate small stations and they all only exert a very small acceleration force. This acceleration force is negligible upon each acceleration station but upon the accelerating object they all cumulatively add up. So each station is really only moved a very small amount in the other direction but the object itself is accelerated a lot cumulatively.
good luck getting all the orbits to line up, the path spacecraft take through space is not a straight line, and a spacecraft cannot sit in one place unmoving (bar a select few places which small amounts of force will dislodge them from)