Re: will solar sailing work?

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

At 10:57 AM 7/3/2003 -0400, Carl, you wrote:
> In the articles linked below, Gold from Cornell claims solar sailing won't
> work essentially because it would violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

/snip/

> An ideal radiometer *would*
> turn in the correct (radiation pressure) direction for low-friction vanes in
> an ultrahigh vacuum. Apparently done in 1901 using a fiber. [Lebedew, P.N.,
> "Untersuchungen uber die Druckkrafte des Lichtes," Annalen der Physik, No.
> 11, pp. 433-458 (1901). ]

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> Comments? Carl
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The radiometer (not Crookes' radiometer) evidence is in itself sufficient
to carry Carl's point.  No other argument is needed.

Hmmm.. but doesn't it follow we then have a red shift mechanism that
 is not distance/recession related?
(I am quite out of touch with current cosmology.)

Brian Whatcott