Tuesday, December 7, 2010

News: Optical lifting demonstrated for the first time (w/ Video)

PhysOrg.com has an article mentioning: "... Optical lifting may be useful for powering micromachines or improving the design of solar sails for interstellar space travel. Light has been known for some time to be capable of pushing objects and this is the principle behind the solar sail , ..."

Posted by Photonic News

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