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Old 07-10-2012, 11:57 AM   #1
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Default What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

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The ideas of aerodynamics don’t apply here. Normally, air would flow around anything moving through it. But the air molecules in front of this ball don’t have time to be jostled out of the way. The ball smacks into them hard that the atoms in the air molecules actually fuse with the atoms in the ball’s surface. Each collision releases a burst of gamma rays and scattered particles.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

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