KnowThyself

<br />I'm not clear on this, but are you suggesting putting an actual physical track around the Earth?<br /><br />If so, there is a couple of problems with that.  For one, it won't stay there. The section closest to the Earth will feel more gravity and be pulled to the Earth and eventually hit it.  This would happen to any solid ring around the Earth.  This was proven to be true mathematically more than a century ago. (This proof was originally used to show the Saturn's rings could not be solid.)<br /><br />For the other. even if you could keep the track in place, it would not generate any extra energy.  While the object would gain speed as they got closer to the Earth, they would lose it again as they climbed back away. <br /><br />As mentioned in a couple of the posts above, your system would not take advantage of the slingshot effect which requires the object to first be in an independent orbit around the Sun before it whips around the planet.   In addition, the energy gained by the object is not "free" nor infinite, as it comes at the expense of the planet's own orbit around the Sun.<br />

Ah thank you for explaining it.

<br />I don't believe this is an example of the slingshot effect.<br />

Two terrible responses to my only 2 posts on this forum. Looks like I've already found the resident troll.

<br />Day and night cycles are not an illusion.<br />

My point remains. I thought this was a place to discuss with intellectuals.

Are you really going to sit there and play semantics when everyone knows what I am trying to say?

New poster here, thought this thread belonged here in Speculation.

Can someone explain to me if this would or would not work?

Basically, use the slingshot effect of planetary bodies to speed up several crafts that are attached to a stationary track in orbit around the earth, to generate power infinitely. Considering that each craft would be sped up to about 20,000 MPH or greater, this could generate a lot of power.

Time is an invention of mankind, it doesn't exist. It was created due to the illusion of day and night cycles, which are nothing more than the effects of sunlight exposure as the earth rotates.

It is a very useful concept to "measure" distances or to separate one memory from a different memory, but time is not something that actually exists or can be manipulated.