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XKCD: The physics of relativistic baseball
XKCD, Randall Munroe’s comic strip, today considers the question “What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?” Even if you find the game of baseball to be confusing or uninteresting, the answer might please you. The drawing below is but one detail: BONUS (for baseball historians […]
XKCD: Vault calculation
This XKCD cartoon illustrates an old (but perhaps correct) idea — that calculation can have consequences: