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Playing a game that did it's best to emulate the milky way. Anyways it certainly gets across just how much light, perhaps better and more accurately how much radiation there would be near the centre of our galaxy.
Recently read about "light pressure", giving an example of 30 billion laser pointers being capable of lifting maybe a penny or so.
That's not a great ratio, but I imagine in the extreme case of the centre of a "normal" galaxy the effect would add an additional "metric" to calculating motion / kinematics of a galaxy.
So i guess the radiation in summation would be centrifugal, perhaps "working" against the summed gravitational attraction of less massive objects toward the centre, among many other things I am sure.
Does light pressure have a measurable effect on galaxies? If so simply put what are they? And is there a better term than "light" pressure. light seems limiting in wavelength lol
(I believe there was a man made satellite that had a velocity correction because of the suns "light" pressure)
edit: lol i see a well done wiki page on "radiation pressure", mods feel free to delete
Recently read about "light pressure", giving an example of 30 billion laser pointers being capable of lifting maybe a penny or so.
That's not a great ratio, but I imagine in the extreme case of the centre of a "normal" galaxy the effect would add an additional "metric" to calculating motion / kinematics of a galaxy.
So i guess the radiation in summation would be centrifugal, perhaps "working" against the summed gravitational attraction of less massive objects toward the centre, among many other things I am sure.
Does light pressure have a measurable effect on galaxies? If so simply put what are they? And is there a better term than "light" pressure. light seems limiting in wavelength lol
(I believe there was a man made satellite that had a velocity correction because of the suns "light" pressure)
edit: lol i see a well done wiki page on "radiation pressure", mods feel free to delete
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