Caltech’s Lightsail Experiment Brings Interstellar Travel Closer to Reality
A team of investigator at the California Institute of Technology devised a mean value of measuring the thin membranes of a lightsail , helping try out out a futuristic change of location concept firstimaginedby Johannes Kepler over 400 twelvemonth ago . The squad ’s research , publishedthis month inNature Photonics , describes a miniature lightsail in a testing ground setting . The researchers measured radiation sickness pressure on the sail from a laser beam , expose how the material reacted to the laser radio beam ....