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MR. JEANS'S criticism of the dimensions of my equation, “radiation-pressure=gravity”, is clearly only a verbal matter. It may be preferable to expand the sentence so as to read, “force on material due to radiation-pressure=force on material due to gravity.” But statements that radiation-pressure is x times gravity have been commonly made in connection with the theory of the repulsion of comets' tails, and I thought the reader would have no difficulty in interpreting my statement in the same sense.
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EDDINGTON, A. The Radiation of the Stars . Nature 99, 365 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099365b0
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