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What if someone built a 30,000 ft high tube, similar to magnetic trains
- electrical magnets around it. Then you could just put metallic
cargo inside - without any engine or fuel, and shoot it up.
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This sounds like a particle-accelerator. Could particle-accelerators be used to shoot 'beams' of materials into space? I guess a proton beam is essentially hydrogen but could heavier atoms like oxygen, nitrogen, etc. be accelerated into space? If so, would the beams dissipate before they could be captured or could they be focussed enough to reach a receptacle in orbit?