Radiation pressure
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Oct 13, 2026
Andrew DunkleyHOST
How, how would that work if you were living on it, is what he's saying.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Uh, Jeff wants to know about photon pressure.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Um, Brian is asking about, um, what a black hole covers up.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Interesting.
10 MINS LATER
Fred WatsonGUEST
And so in particular, you know, the, the potentially nice idea that this could account for dark energy, uh, which is the energy of the universe itself, that is, um...
Fred WatsonGUEST
They're, they're two quite different things.
Fred WatsonGUEST
Uh, dark energy is independent of any kind of photon pressure.
Fred WatsonGUEST
Uh, and so, um, it's basically the, the idea of a- all the photons floating around the universe.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
How, how would that work if you were living on it, is what he's saying.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Uh, Jeff wants to know about photon pressure.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Um, Brian is asking about, um, what a black hole covers up.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Interesting.
10 MINS LATER
Fred WatsonGUEST
Uh, but it is, it is something that is taken into account, um, in, in the study of cosmology, the, the behavior of the universe as a whole.
Fred WatsonGUEST
And so in particular, you know, the, the potentially nice idea that this could account for dark energy, uh, which is the energy of the universe itself, that is, um, they're, they're two quite different things.
Fred WatsonGUEST
Uh, dark energy is independent of any kind of photon pressure.
Fred WatsonGUEST
Uh, and so, um, it's basically the, the idea of a- all the photons floating around the universe.