Category: Cartoons

What if…

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The maker of xkcd, my favorite comic, started a new site, “what-if.xkcd.com,” where he answers absurd “what if…” questions posed to him by his comic fans. Judging by the first two, this new weekly series will be worth following. Here’s the first: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? 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.: The answer turns out to be “a lot of things”, and they all happen very quickly, and

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