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To make it a bit more graspable; A baseball at 90% the speed of light will cause a fairly large nuclear detonation. [0] This particle moved at 99.9999999999999
by zaarn 9y ago
To make it a bit more graspable; A baseball at 90% the speed of light will cause a fairly large nuclear detonation. [0]
This particle moved at 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light. IIRC from when I worked it out a month ago or so (baseball with that speed), it was in the region of 10^25 J, pretty close the energy the entire sun is outputting each second or a couple million nuclear bombs. (10^25 particles, 4.8 joule per particle)
[0]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
- Parcissons 9y agoIf such a particle interacts with the water of my brain- would i drop dead?
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- zaarn 9y agoIf such a baseball would interact with your brain, then yes. That would be kill. If only the particle interacted: no. It's too fast to reasonably interact with something as short as going through a human body with any meaningful amount of energy.