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Old Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:24pm
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
Isn't that the formula for kinetic energy? Perhaps you meant Newton's formula, F = dp/dt, though Newton couldn't have guessed about mushroom clouds.

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Well yes, but the point is still the same, a mass (baseball) traveling at near the speed of light squared, has tremendous energy. The pitch can't be seen, can't be caught, and everyone for some distance around is annihilated.
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