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The photonic railway

机译：光子铁路

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The Photonic Railway is proposed to overcome the limit of the current propulsion technology based on conventional rocketry for interstellar flight and to potentially open a new space era. The photonic railway, which is a permanent energy-efficient transportation structure based on the Beamed-Laser Propulsion (BLP) by Forward and the Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) by the author, is proposed to enable such routine interstellar commutes via proposed Space Trains. It is shown here that the developmental pathway towards the interstellar flight demands not only technological breakthroughs, but consistent long-term world-scale economic interest and investment. Such interest and investment will only result from positive financial returns from routine interstellar commutes that can transport highly valuable commodities in a profitable manner. A four-phased evolutionary developmental pathway towards the interstellar Photonic Railway is proposed. Each phase poses evolutionary, yet daunting, technological and financial challenges that need to be overcome within each time frame of 20 ??? 30 years, and is projected to generate multitudes of applications that would lead to sustainable reinvestment into its development. If successfully developed, the Photonic Railway would bring about a quantum leap in the human economic and social interests in space from explorations to terraforming, mining, colonization, and permanent habitation in exoplanets.
机译：提出光子铁路是为了克服当前基于常规火箭技术进行星际飞行的推进技术的局限性，并有可能开启新的太空时代。光子铁路是一种持久的高能效运输结构，它基于前向激光束推进器（BLP）和作者的光子激光推进器（PLT），旨在通过拟议的太空列车实现这种常规的星际通勤。从这里可以看出，通往星际飞行的发展道路不仅需要技术突破，还需要长期的世界范围的经济利益和投资。这种利息和投资将仅来自常规星际通勤的正财务收益，这些通勤能以有利可图的方式运输高价值的商品。提出了通往星际光子铁路的四阶段进化发展途径。每个阶段都提出了进化的，但又令人生畏的技术和财务挑战，需要在20个时间范围内克服？ 30年，并且预计将产生大量应用程序，从而导致对其开发的可持续再投资。如果开发成功，光子铁路将带来人类在空间上的经济和社会利益的巨大飞跃，从探索到地形形成，采矿，殖民化以及系外行星的永久居住。

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