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Mmmh, I don't think so. At least efficiently. You might be able to decelerate emitting photons in front of you but they would escape to infinity unless you put them in orbit around a black hole. In that case perhaps.

If we will ever have the technology to instead create proper massive particles at scale you could eject those in orbit around some other massive object and then re-steal their angular momentum to accelerate yourself. But that I believe would be an extremely lossy process so you would lose most of the energy.



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