Dorian Breh
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Is this cap or no cap?
A needle traveling at the speed of light can destroy Earth?
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Is this cap or no cap?
BaldingSoHard
Veteran
It's true.
That much momentum would destroy just about anything.
That much momentum would destroy just about anything.
Drip Bayless
Superstar
Yeah same reason dropping a penny off the Empire State could really fukk someone up, or a train hitting you at less than 10 mph can kill you
Kinetic energy
Kinetic energy
R.E.N. Spells Ren
Veteran
I mean it says in the very video that it can…but it also could not. Translation: no one really knows. There are competing principles of physics at play so the theories could go either way. 
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Jubilado
Wouldn't a pin traveling at that speed be destroyed by it's own momentum anyway lol
The faster it goes the more heat it should generate but I dunno about the vacuum of space and alldat
The faster it goes the more heat it should generate but I dunno about the vacuum of space and alldat
Dorian Breh
Veteran
Even if it disinitegrated, the atoms would still continue to travel separately and hit the earth, no?
nikka I’d catch that shyt with my hand and save earth. No one scared of a needle
OneManGang
Veteran
A grain of sand traveling the speed of light would destroy Earth. E=MC^2. The amount of energy it would be carrying is inconceivable. Photons have no mass, anything with any amount of mass (currently impossible) going that speed is an act of God
I find it unbelievable that a needle would be able to pierce through the Earth’s core and come out the other side. The Earth’s core is made of iron-nickel alloy and is about the temperature of the surface of the Sun. A needle is made of steel. And Steel often melts at around 1370° Celcius or 2500°F. Temperature in the inner core is about 5,200° Celsius or 9,392°F. And the pressure is nearly 3.6 million atmosphere. You cannot tell me that the needle would not disintegrate and dissolve.
Dorian Breh
Veteran
The fact that it wouldn't come out the other side is WORSE, because it means the earth will absorb the full quantum of energy
OneManGang
Veteran
There’s a lot to unpack with this kind of scenario. For one, you have to believe that the needle doesn’t succumb to the forces at that speed, is made up of some Sci fi material etc etc. But for simplicity, just imagine that a regular needle was able to go that fast. At that speed, nothing else matters except the moment the needle hit any amount of mass, whether it be atmosphere, molecules, whatever, the Earth is incinerated. The energy of that collision would be gigantic. Conventional physics don’t apply to this scenario as far as material melting points and all that. The moment our fake needle reaches the speed of light it’s over for anything it hits.
EDIT: Anything with mass even approaching the speed of light, like a percentage of it, is an act of God.
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Joe Budden
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Y’all science nikkas be out here believing anything.
