Increasing Mass Base Feed Rigid High Tower Model
Since the tower is able to pump up a continuous stream of bodies of equal mass, one question that comes to mind is whether it could raise increasing masses. In this applet, each new body fed in at the base of the tower is 1% heavier than the next one up.
The tower succeeds in raising ever-increasing masses for a while. Since the elastic force constant of the cables between bodies is not changed, the cables are increasingly stretched, and bodies are released more slowly from the top. Eventually, one of the cables snaps.
But this demonstration show that it is, in principle, possible for a light tower to pull up a heavier tower. This has important consequences for tower construction. If a light rigid tower can be constructed, it can be used to haul up a heavier tower, and so on. The construction of a light tower would entail conventional (rocket) launches to deploy a light tower, but once this tower (which might be a filamentary thread) was in place, all further construction would employ the tower's capability to raise more than its own mass.