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CONCERNING the pressure of light, we may safely say that it was predicted by Maxwell, discovered by Lebedew of Moscow, and independently by Nichols and Hull in America; while it was elaborately discussed, clinched by further experiments, and its significance greatly extended by Poynting and by Poynting and Barlow. We now learn from Prof. Eddington's brilliant address to Section A of the British Association at Cardiff this year that radiation pressure has a cosmic significance beyond what had been thought possible; that it holds back or sustains the outer substance of the brighter and hotter stars, and is responsible for their huge size; while at the same time it has the effect of limiting the possible aggregation of masses of matter, so that the mass reasonably permissible to any star ranges from five times to one-half that of our sun—something of that order.
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LODGE, O. Restoration of Energy. Nature 106, 341 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106341a0
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