#Radiation pressure with recoil: Experimental proof for a 90 year-old theory
“#Radiation pressure with recoil: Experimental proof for a 90 year-old theory” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Light exerts a certain amount of pressure onto a body: sun sails could thus power space probes in the future. However, when light particles (photons) hit an individual molecule and knock out an electron, the molecule flies toward the light…