[TerranC]

I've always thought that Aaron got his ideas of Null space and Phased Polarons from Trek...

But Solar sails I think I can answer.

The Sun creates Solar winds; a path of ions (Methinks) that travel at high speed and keeps hitting our planet's magnetic sphear.

Solar sails are supposedley knit very closely that it catches the solar winds, and since the sail is made of a very thin substance, it can be propelled by the Solar winds.

A russian team funded by a company tried to launch a solar sail craft, but failed twice.

Edit: Mesons:

"All particles that participate in the forces that hold nucleons together in atomic nuclei."

Can't answer more than that; Wish I took physics.

[ June 09, 2002, 21:25: Message edited by: TerranC ]