CincyInDC Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Not Reds-related per se, but almost as awesome as stealing home on a pop-up to 2nd. http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ [quote] [b] [url="http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/"]Relativistic Baseball[/url][/b] What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? - Ellen McManis Let’s set aside the question of how we got the baseball moving that fast. We'll suppose it's a normal pitch, except in the instant the pitcher releases the ball, it magically accelerates to 0.9c. From that point onward, everything proceeds according to normal physics.: [img]http://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/1/01.png[/img] The answer turns out to be “a lot of things”, and they all happen very quickly, and it doesn’t end well for the batter (or the pitcher). I sat down with some physics books, a Nolan Ryan action figure, and a bunch of videotapes of nuclear tests and tried to sort it all out. What follows is my best guess at a nanosecond-by-nanosecond portrait: [/quote] you'll have to click the above link to see the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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