{"id":12044,"date":"2012-07-11T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2012-07-11T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T08:00:39","slug":"welcome-to-the-fusion-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12044","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Fusion Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/1\/\">Relativistic Baseball<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots of physics happens, and then \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEverything within roughly a mile of the park is leveled, and a firestorm engulfs the surrounding city. The baseball diamond is now a sizable crater, centered a few hundred feet behind the former location of the backstop.<\/p>\n<p><em>A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered &#8220;hit by pitch&#8221;, and would be eligible to advance to first base.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relativistic Baseball What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? Lots of physics happens, and then \u2026 Everything within roughly a mile of the park is leveled, and a firestorm engulfs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12044\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}