radiometers and the expanding universe

So, I was remembering back to when I was playing with my dad's childhood radiometer (that bulblike scienctific instrument whose vanes spin around when light hits them). It occurred to me that the sun, and all other stars are constantly bombarding the earth (and every other object in the universe) with radiation.

It also occurred to me that my physics classes always talked about the relationship between two celestial objects in terms the famous inverse square law of gravity, their masses and rotational speed. Of course, the sun and earth are attracting each other through gravity, but because the sun is luminous, is it not also pushing the earth away like the vane of a radiometer?

Furthering that thought, could distant stars and galaxies be repelling each other like light pushes the vanes of a radiometer? Because all of these objects are floating in a vacuum and there is no force to slow them down, could this be a cause of the universe expanding and an accelerating rate?

If the sun really is repulsing the earth due to this effect, could Newton's law of gravitation need an adjustment for radiation emmiting objects?

...should correct/clarify: not rotational speed... instead, angular velocity.

Back around 1953 I received a miniature Simon & Schuster book on the stars. It said that the solar radiation received at Earth amounts to about 1.5 horsepower per square yard. That compares almost exactly to 175 petawatts for the whole terrestrial disc. But could all this energy be converted into pushing the Earth? I guess that means that if the Earth were completely covered with 100%-efficient solar cells and the skies were perfectly clear those cells could generate 175 petawatts of electricity.
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Back around 1953 I received a miniature Simon & Schuster book on the stars. It said that the solar radiation received at Earth amounts to about 1.5 horsepower per square yard. That compares almost exactly to 175 petawatts for the whole terrestrial disc. But could all this energy be converted into pushing the Earth? I guess that means that if the Earth were completely covered with 100%-efficient solar cells and the skies were perfectly clear those cells could generate 175 petawatts of electricity.

[quote][…] Well --it seems just as likely to me that a light wave when traveling untold trillions of miles will encounter some drag out there in the vacuum--maybe even bumping into stray molecules along the way or otherwise affected by radiation.--maybe allot it to the "Higgs Field" ?.

What do you all think---is there further proof that the Universe is expanding (at an increasing rate over time) other than the Red Shift or is it likely that there is a much simpler explanation for the observed Red Shift.

So, I was remembering back to when I was playing with my dad's childhood radiometer (that bulblike scienctific instrument whose vanes spin around when light hits them). It occurred to me that the sun, and all other stars are constantly bombarding the earth (and every other object in the universe) with radiation.

It also occurred to me that my physics classes always talked about the relationship between two celestial objects in terms the famous inverse square law of gravity, their masses and rotational speed. Of course, the sun and earth are attracting each other through gravity, but because the sun is luminous, is it not also pushing the earth away like the vane of a radiometer?

Furthering that thought, could distant stars and galaxies be repelling each other like light pushes the vanes of a radiometer? Because all of these objects are floating in a vacuum and there is no force to slow them down, could this be a cause of the universe expanding and an accelerating rate?

If the sun really is repulsing the earth due to this effect, could Newton's law of gravitation need an adjustment for radiation emmiting objects?

to those that think the univers is pushing at the earth, the earth is a spherical object, though not that spherical and is sourounded by the univers, so energy is pushing from all around, surly most of it is canceling the itself out?

so even if it was possible, and im not sayning it is, most of the energy hitting the earth is canceling itself out, in the same way that the energy hiting the earth on the side of the sun isnt pushing us off into space like a rocket, its simple, gravity though a week force in the univers is holding most things in place, and helping other things to move, such as comets, satelights, we eaven use stelar objects to help with getting our satelights and spacecraft into orbit round solar bodies, but i dont here much about alowing for stelar or solar winds in these computations, i wonder why?