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Pixel-art torsion balance in a glass bulb with bright and blackened discs on a hanging wing, a yellow beam of light from the left and a green arrow showing the push, captioned light pushes

Lebedev 1900: How the Pressure of Light Was Fir...

In 1900 Pyotr Lebedev showed that light pushes on a mirror, exactly as Maxwell predicted. Here is how big that push is, why it was so hard to measure, how...

Lebedev 1900: How the Pressure of Light Was Fir...

In 1900 Pyotr Lebedev showed that light pushes on a mirror, exactly as Maxwell predicted. Here is how big that push is, why it was so hard to measure, how...