Recent content by Fedko

I'm not proposing speeds that would provide interstellar travel, merely speeds that would allow us to travel the solar system in relatively short ammounts of time...a large enough solar plant(whatever that means) could easily provide the energy required if this was built in space...the initial...

hmm...true...lol...you would end up firing the accelerator in the opposite direction at half the force intended for the ship... what if it were mounted to a larger object...like a moon?

I'm not talking about shooting particles out of the backside of a ship for a push...I'm talking about literally using the ship as a "particle" and "accelerating" it across space...like putting the ship in a slingshot

Magnetic acceleration of a "ship" in space (hyper-particle-acceleration?) ok...was taking a shower and suddenly I imagined something that I thuoght was pretty neat. Now, I am way into sci fi and such, but imagine for a second that if funding and resources was not a problem, that a magnetic...