Recent content by justcurious33

would there be a way to "catch" or harness it if it was aimed earth-ward on purpose

Thank you all. I understand its probably a simple enough answer but im new to this and want to learn more.

Gravitational lensing and general relativity as i understand it says that all objects with mass bend and warp space and light around them. And so i thought about how that works with the moon and if using something as large as a planet to reflect such a light source would amplify or even simply...

Sorry im not good at illustration

Not the reflection of the moon's light, rather i meant the sunlight that is bent around the moon in space. I'm thinking of it as if a mirror in space is positioned as if the earth is during a solar eclipse and that is directed toward the lightcraft. Again I know nothing, thank you for the...

I dont know much and you can dumb it down as much as you like or not. I've recently gotten very curious about light propulsion and i was reading that if a laser or beam of light was directed at a solar sail it could generate mass amounts of energy and be used to travel to deep(er) space. I was...