Weightless transportation of the future

Abstract

English science fiction writer Arthur Clark made another prophecy. "... Maybe, we are on the verge of creating a new type of spacecraft that can leave Earth at minimal cost by overcoming the gravitational barrier," he said. "Then the current rockets will be the same as the balloons before the First World War." What is the basis for such statement? The answer can be found in the modern ideas of creating a transport on magnetic cushion. The disadvantages of traditional modes of transport (noise, vibration, environmental pollution, increased fuel consumption traffic congestion, etc.) can be largely eliminated during operating intensively developed magnetic suspension trains. The feature of this trains are: wagons have no wheels, they do not have traditional traction motions and current elements.