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ONE of the remarkable discoveries of our times has been the pressure of radiation. Though this pressure is ordinarily so extremely minute that it was difficult to discover—and perhaps would not have been discovered had it not been predicted mathematically beforehand by Clerk Maxwell—yet in certain circumstances the pressure of light can be very large and of cosmic importance. Whether it has an influence and ought to be taken into account in the intimate structure of atoms, I am not prepared to say, but I suggest it. The Boscovich contemplation of regions where force changes sign, and our whole knowledge of the stability of Bohr's atomic orbits, represent facts which have not yet been accounted for.
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LODGE, O. Hypothesis about Push or Contact Force1. Nature 116, 869–871 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116869a0
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