Magnetic machines, beamed-energy propulsion, and minimum-chemical space transportation architecture. Independent research, published as it happens — analyses, buildable hardware documents, and measured results, misses included.
Chemical rockets win ascent by power density, not efficiency — the propellant is the power plant. To launch without chemistry, either leave the power plant on the ground (a laser beam) or deliver all the velocity on the ground (a magnetic track or coilgun). This program studies, and is benchtop-prototyping toward, an architecture that does both: ship the dumbest possible mass; add energy at the point of use.
Claims carry epistemic tiers: [E] established (textbook physics, published data) · [I] inference (first-cut analysis, our sims) · [S] speculation (demand models, far horizons). Dollar figures are [I]-grade, ±2×, until the citation-and-uncertainty pass closes. The git commit history is the timestamp authority: documents are corrected forward, never silently rewritten.
Phase 0 (benchtop) active. Build Sheets 001 (Inductrack demonstrator) and 002 (droplet thruster) released; hardware purchasing underway. Next: Phase 0 gate review → Lab Note 001.
White papers and analyses: CC BY 4.0. Build sheets and designs: CC BY-NC 4.0 (commercial use licensable — the goal is participation, not gatekeeping). Code: MIT. Details in LICENSE. Technical critique is welcome — open an issue; errors that survive review get corrected in a dated commit.