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Relativistic Baseball. What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

Relativistic Baseball

- 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. Techinterview. High Existence.

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