  In 1909 Einstein described the thermalization of a mirror within a blackbody
cavity by collisions with thermal photons. While the time to thermalize the
motion of even a microscale or nanoscale object is so long that it is not
feasible, we show that it is using the high intensity light from an amplified
thermal light source with a well-defined chemical potential. We predict damping
of the center-of mass motion due to this effect on times scales of seconds for
small optomechanical systems, such as levitated nanoparticles, allowing
experimental observation.
