Re: Solar sailing vs. laws of physics ?

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 20:23:29 MDT

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    At 12:42 PM 7/3/03 -0500, Chuck wrote:

    >He talks of the Crookes radiometer - a device that has been shown to
    >operate because of increased local gas pressure due to the heating of the
    >blackened sides of the vanes.

    Not quite.

    http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/LightMill/light-mill.html

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