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Aaaaah yes, NASA I love you :D Thanks Dale, you're relation to Gravity Probe B made my missing link: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gpb/gpb_results.html

I vaguely remember learning somewhere somehow sometime that gravity doesn't just dent space-time inwards, it also swirls space-time just a bit. I remember learning this because it was visually depicted using honey. However, now that I try to find out more, I can't seem to find any reference to...

Well, I asked :P Anyway, putting it all together, if a planet were to somehow be ejected beyond the reach of gravity of its own galaxy, would the spectrum of light coming from the galaxy repulse the planet away?

Weird, but ok. How does that work then? Curiosity gland is pumping :D

Very cool, but wouldn't that imply that photons have mass? If mass is 0 then momentum must be 0? Or am I missing something?

Does that mean that, if no other (sufficient) forces are applied, matter could be repulsed by light?

Suppose there's an atom in deep space, beyond the reach of gravity of any close-by galaxies. When this atom is bombarded with gamma radiation, and an electron is ejected, wouldn't this ejection also exert reverse 'thrust' on the atom itself, in accordance to Newton's 3rd law? In other words...

Important distinction indeed, you pretty much answered the uncertainty that I had and disproved my thought (which is not a bad thing of course). Thanks muchly :)

As you might have guessed from my subtle hint, I've been pondering the nature of dark energy and its involvement in the expanding universe and I tripped over a stupidly simple alternative idea that pretty much changes much of what I understand about cosmology since the times of Albert Einstein...