How does emitting light cause you to get pushed backwards? Same with gasses escaping a rocket’s nozzle; how does that propel the rocket? Like, where does this opposing force come from?

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How does emitting light cause you to get pushed backwards? Same with gasses escaping a rocket’s nozzle; how does that propel the rocket? Like, where does this opposing force come from?

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For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So if something goes shooting out the back of a rocket then there is an equal force in the opposite direction.

This is how the laws of the universe work.

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