Slightly Off-topic: Hit by pitch?

[DG]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Well, not to be obtuse, but nothing can travel at the speed of light squared, and you could see it and catch it just fine if you were traveling at around the same speed. We're all moving at 17000 MPH around the sun and don't seem the worse for wear.

Umpires quibbling about physics! Who knew!

I pointed out the formula for the force of a mass moving at a velocity. The velocity is whatever it is, which in this op was near the speed of light, but the force is still related to velocity squared, according to this formula, which is based on conventional physics and as we know, physics takes on another level at the speed of light.

Don't know many catchers catching a pitch at near the speed of light while traveling at near the speed of light.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by DG

I pointed out the formula for the force of a mass moving at a velocity.

There's no such thing as "the force of a mass moving at a velocity". Something weighing 1 lb moving at 5 mph does not have a force, much less a force of 1x5x5 or 25 lbm^2/h^2. Force does not equal mass times velocity squared. Force is MEASURED in equivalent terms, but Force equals mass times ACCELERATION, which, for a mass moving at a constant velocity, is zero.