{"id":7819,"date":"2011-01-30T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7819"},"modified":"2011-01-30T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T08:00:15","slug":"on-gossamer-wings-and-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7819","title":{"rendered":"On Gossamer Wings and Lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2011\/01\/29\/taking-flight-on-light\/\">Skulls in the Stars:  Taking flight on light<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/115\">blogged about the YORP effect<\/a>, but didn&#8217;t have a chance to comment on this new result with optical lift, which is way cool.  Short version is this \u2014 it&#8217;s similar to the gradient force, but the target provides the effect of a gradient rather than the beam needing to do so, which means that the beam can be uniform and you will still get lift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skulls in the Stars: Taking flight on light I&#8217;ve blogged about the YORP effect, but didn&#8217;t have a chance to comment on this new result with optical lift, which is way cool. Short version is this \u2014 it&#8217;s similar to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7819\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}