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To: ETL

I don’t pretend to be a scientist, but riddle me this: if
light is pushing a light sail, wouldn’t it move AWAY from the source of light? The sunlight should send it off in another direction long before it approaches the sun. Same with any other star system it approaches. Where am I going wrong?


29 posted on 11/05/2018 1:21:32 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

“Where am I going wrong?”

In thinking that radiation pressure from photons is stronger than gravity.


51 posted on 11/05/2018 1:50:09 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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