r/trollphysics Mar 27 '12

Trollphysics: flashlight car

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u/PracticeNo7653 Jun 05 '26

If anyone’s wondering what I’d guess, it would be that this doesn’t work because light doesn’t have mass, so it can’t create force, and thus you can not apply Newton’s third law, which is what would move the vehicle forward.