To: Conan the Librarian
I wonder what would happen if you were going .5c and ran head on into another object that was going .5c ?
50 posted on
03/17/2018 10:51:48 AM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: UCANSEE2
OY! It would be such a mess!
52 posted on
03/17/2018 11:00:03 AM PDT by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: UCANSEE2
Kinetic energy is one half the mass times the velocity squared.
E=½mv².
A one ton mass going half the speed of light (93,000 miles per second) will have a kinetic energy of 1.12x1019 joules, which is equivalent to a 2,685 megaton nuclear explosion. That would be the energy released if it came to a sudden stop.
To: UCANSEE2
It’s worse. If you are going 0.5c and run into a stationary 1 gram dust particle, the released energy from impact will basically be equivalent to a large nuke.
58 posted on
03/24/2018 8:53:36 AM PDT by
piytar
(http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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