Abstract
THE success of Lebedeff and Nichols and Hull in recognising and measuring the pressure of radiation has aroused much interest in radiation pressure generally, real or apparent. It has some interesting and sometimes somewhat difficult theoretical aspects. In the first place, if the ether is really absolutely at rest (this rigidity is a very difficult idea), the moving force on it has no activity, and its time integral VDB can only be called momentum out of compliment. The force becomes active in a moving ether, with interesting consequences not now under examination. The present question is rather how to interpret the pressure of radiation on the assumption of a fixed ether, in the measure of its effects on matter which is either fixed or moving through the ether.
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HEAVISIDE, O. The Pressure of Radiation. Nature 71, 439–440 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071439a0
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