From my understanding space is a vaccum and if I understand correctly (which I probably don’t) then there can’t be wind or acceleration?
I probably understand this less than a 5 year old though
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It’s a vacuum, but not a perfect vacuum. There is still some stuff there. Solar wind is energy, particles, and gases that are ejected by the sun. It’s extremely thin, not like a breeze blowing on earth. You would not be able feel it with your senses. Even though its traveling at 400 kilometers per second by the time it reaches the earth’s orbit.
Earth’s air at sea level is about 1.22 kg per cubic meter. Solar wind is about 1,000,000 PARTICLES per cubic meter (at earth’s orbit, it gets even thinner as you move further from the sun). As in electrons, protons, atoms, etc. That 1.22 kg of air is roughly 10 trillion trillion molecules. With each molecule being 2 or more atoms.
It’s like trying to compare the worst tsunami in history (wind on earth) to a light mist from a spritzer bottle (solar wind).
Edit: Redundant statements are redundant. And repetitive.
The sun sends out charged particles that travel insanely fast as it burns. These particles travel forever or until they find resistance since there is no resistance in the vacuum of space. You can’t see or feel these microscopic particles because they are just so small, but in space where there is no resistance, theoretically you could have a large solar “sail” for them to impact and move an object.
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