The hypothesis, by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists of a stream of minute particles emitted by luminous bodies at very high velocities, and that the sensation of light is due to the bombardment of the retina of the eye by these particles.
A unit of force that, when applied to a body of mass one kilogram, gives it an acceleration of one meter per second squared (1 N = 1 kg m s-2).
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