Comment on Doppler

• roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Even ignoring the tires interacting with the road, you have air molecules.

  Here is a cool What If?" from xkcd about throwing a baseball at 0.9c.

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  • lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sound like a ton worth of mass would do a lot of damage indeed

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  • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wow, that seems to be the very first What If ever!

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• rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For the same reason this baseball causes an expanding plasma-ball disintegrating everything. Fusion with air molecules that can’t get out of the way fast enough what-if.xkcd.com/1/

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