Again, I think on shooting a person or car through a vacuum tunnel, powered by magnets. I wish I had a tidy few million bucks to experiment with this. It seems it should work. It seems we could be transporting ourselves this way, now, speeding across the nation at warp speeds, now. Don't wait for the future. Tear this away from sci-fi and do it.
Now.
Okay, here's what well do: We'll build transit tunnels from one end of the state to the other. When you arrive at St. George, you have the option of staying on the old, boring interstate, or entering the intergalactic (so to speak) magnet tunnel. We wrap your car in a cocoon, slip it into the vacuum tunnel, and send you on your way. Now, vacuum tunnels have little resistance, you know, and maybe none. The only resistance I can think of will be that from countering gravity, and some from the magnets we will use.
Yes, we will center the person or the car in the vacuum tube with magnets on the tunnel walls. That might create too much friction if we to it that way, but it is one possibility. Perhaps the trajectory of the centering magnets can be at such an angle that they sweep along the sides of the tunnel, but do not go to the center where the person or car is in transport. So, only when the person or car drifts from the center of the tunnel do these magnet waves touch the person or car. Thus, only then would there be friction from magnet waves.
Now, without friction, you can go as fast as light -- and faster, it would seem to me. I am not a scientist, but this theory of unlimited speed seems sound, to me. If there is no friction, you will go as fast as the propelling source dictates. No, the thrust of a rocket engine will not provide such speed. When we shoot spacecrafts into space, they can maintain the same speed the rocket thrust them to, but they do not exceed that speed.
So, we need a power source other than rocket power. Is there one capable of infinite speed? I believe there is: magnets. It seems to me that the pull of a magnet demands that the two objects reach each other as soon as possible -- even immediately, if possible. How fast that actually plays out to if we build a magnet tunnel, I do not know. But, if unlimited speed seems possible in theory, at least extraordinary speed should be attained in actual practice.
And, like I say, we should be able to make this work today, not far in the future. And, as I said, this isn't science fiction I'm talking, I'm telling you how to do it and spelling it out. I believe you should be able to see that it will work.
The last time I wrote, I suggested a magnet at the destination. Would the pull of a magnet over at one end of the state, say, in Green River, be able to reach all the way to St. George? If not, then here is another idea: Push the car with magnets. Magnets have a positive and a negative. As the car starts through the tunnel, send a magnet after it to push it, and, if necessary, another magnet after that one, to push it. You could send as many magnets after the car as necessary, to attain the speed or keep the push close to the car. If you did send chaser magnets, though, you might not be able to have centering magnets on the walls, rather you would have to use a monorail or some such to keep the car centered, otherwise, the magnets on the side of the tunnel might attract the chaser magnets.
Actually, on second thought, as long as you engineer it so the magnets on the walls do not attract the chaser magnets, it might work.
Then, magnet waves at the end of the tunnel would bring the car to a stop.
Now, as I am thinking this all through as I type, I do see a problem. How do you shut off the chaser magnets? If you have a magnet at whichever end of the tunnel, it is anchored and you can turn it away stopping the pull or push and letting the stopper magnet at the other end stop the vehicle. I suppose, then, you could have a magnet at the end of the tunnel attract the chaser magnets, but the collision of those magnets would be . . . obviously catastrophic. Perhaps, then, the chaser magnets could be neutralized by magnets on the opposite sides of the tunnel, each having equal force, each pushing perpendicular to those tunnel walls. In the absence of resistance, the push of these magnets would immediately take over and stop the car.
Okay, I said this is all possible today, now. Upon further review, it might take a lot of testing. If no chaser magnets are needed, it might be something we can do, today, but chaser magnets might make a lot more experimentation necessary.
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