Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Hey, Batter, Batter!

Suppose that a pitcher could throw a baseball at 90% of the speed of light.

What happens next might surprise you.

4 comments:

  1. All these may years I've been trying to get to first base, and I always get burned. Now I know why. It's the pitcher's fault.

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  2. Amusing. I thought I'd be reading about time dilation or some such.

    Here's a similar scenario from the viewpoint of the pitcher... or perhaps the viewpoint of the 0.9c ball... or perhaps from no viewpoint at all.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14

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  3. As long as you get to first base. Heh ...

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  4. All this time physicists have been messing around with magnetic bottles and lasers, and they could have just given Justin Verlander some steroids.

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