Suppose we discovered something like this:

The "moving walkways" pass close to local stars fairly far from their suns. Each "walkway" consists of two columns of dust moving at a significant portion of the speed of light. Each is 400m in diameter, passing by our solar system on a useful trajectory toward nearby stars, above & parallel the ecliptic.

Like outbound & inbound subway tunnels. (Though, to step in these tunnels would be death)

How could we exploit the fast predictable dust highways?

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@futurebird So like relativistic Aldrin Cyclers, plus mass?

Setting aside transport, it seems like there's something to be done with the trade-off between relativistic speed and stable conductive properties.

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