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Ok as far as slingshotting around a single body with no other bodies influencing, you cannot gain any net momentum. that is, your entering momentum will equal your exiting momentum. If there is a body within orbit of a larger body lets say the sun, then you can steal momentum from the body...

Simple answer is no, I do not see how you can enter into an object's pull and start to move away from it without losing all the energy it initiaslly gave to you. It's like throwing a ball up into the air and saying that it will have a greater velocity when it comes back down. It will have the...

It's hard to say that it is an inconvenience but rather it is that using fossil fuels is much much much more cost efficient. If we really wanted to use electric propulsion inside the atmosphere it would not be too much of a problem past safety issues. It would work just fine as long as we are...

From what I understand the Casimir Effect is not even a solid discovery because the amount of detail needed to conduct a verifiable experiment is tremendous. I quickly looked up the effect and found that when experimenting there is a lack of taking boundry conditions into acount and this could...