but what if the paintball was moving towards you from light years away, the theory of relativity would apply.... it would make for some pretty stoopid calculations though..........!
physics of paintball
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Speed of light
Well I supose it would be relevent if you had a paintball moving towards you at the speed of light. However as the speed of light is 286,000 miles per second it would be way over the chrono limit. Also as a body hits the speed of light it gains infinite mass so it would not splat on you giving a clean elimination it would splat you, not sure if that would count but you would definitly be eliminated and there is no way you could "wipe". The paint ball would also appear to change colour as the doplar effect would compress the light frequency into the blue part of the spectrum. The final wierd bit would be the facy that time dilation would mean that time for the paint ball would be much slower than for you standing stationary, so a few minutes for the paintball could be days or weeks for you. This would make it a nightmare to referee.
Well I supose it would be relevent if you had a paintball moving towards you at the speed of light. However as the speed of light is 286,000 miles per second it would be way over the chrono limit. Also as a body hits the speed of light it gains infinite mass so it would not splat on you giving a clean elimination it would splat you, not sure if that would count but you would definitly be eliminated and there is no way you could "wipe". The paint ball would also appear to change colour as the doplar effect would compress the light frequency into the blue part of the spectrum. The final wierd bit would be the facy that time dilation would mean that time for the paint ball would be much slower than for you standing stationary, so a few minutes for the paintball could be days or weeks for you. This would make it a nightmare to referee.
Speed of light
That's news to me
Robbo
Steve, as I said, if you are gonna get all scientific on our ass, you gotta be sure of your facts, and the speed of light being 286,000 miles per second ???
That's news to me
Robbo
I think if you were hit that quick you would need to go to the "dead" zone since you could just fall on the floor and make a new zone
Also if that paintball hit the earth would it make a very very big hole?????
Also if that paintball hit the earth would it make a very very big hole?????
Replying to the original post: Actually, you forgot to state whether the paintball is traveling in a vacuum or not...if it is, then what you said is correct. If it isn't (and most don't), then the smaller paintball (both being of equal weight) will travel slightly further, due to less wind resistance (which varies with the cube of the velocity). I posted something to this effect at "http://www.p8ntballer-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13829&perpage=15&pagenumber=2" recently.
Also if everyone is going to be more or less correct, the paintball should never actually reach the speed of light as it has mass and if I remember, only massless objects (photons) will not "become" the universe as it hits the the "speed bump" that the speed of light has. ie: The paintball will always get extremely close to ~186,000 miles per second, or ~ six trillion miles per year but "should" never actually reach the speed of light or pass it. I didn't make the rules, so don't blame me Maybe if Chuck had put "Paintball god" on my ID card instead of on Jessica Spark's card, I could change the rules around a little
And Newton's laws are rules specific to being around an object with an observable gravitational field (meaning the Earth). They can be derived from Einstein's equation if you use the full equation which I believe is "E=mc2 + 2pvmc + P2V2". I could be wrong on the specifics but the extra terms account for change in momentum of the moving object (either a change in speed or a change in direction). The usually stated equation (e=mc2) is for an object that doesn't change speed or direction.
Can I take off my pocket protector now and drop my slide rule?
Ray "I am not a nerd!" N.
Team Relic
Also if everyone is going to be more or less correct, the paintball should never actually reach the speed of light as it has mass and if I remember, only massless objects (photons) will not "become" the universe as it hits the the "speed bump" that the speed of light has. ie: The paintball will always get extremely close to ~186,000 miles per second, or ~ six trillion miles per year but "should" never actually reach the speed of light or pass it. I didn't make the rules, so don't blame me
Maybe if Chuck had put "Paintball god" on my ID card instead of on Jessica Spark's card, I could change the rules around a little And Newton's laws are rules specific to being around an object with an observable gravitational field (meaning the Earth). They can be derived from Einstein's equation if you use the full equation which I believe is "E=mc2 + 2pvmc + P2V2". I could be wrong on the specifics but the extra terms account for change in momentum of the moving object (either a change in speed or a change in direction). The usually stated equation (e=mc2) is for an object that doesn't change speed or direction.
Can I take off my pocket protector now and drop my slide rule?
Ray "I am not a nerd!" N.
Team Relic
Beeep
Damn, over 300 marshal?
You could say that, 130,000 penalty points and banned from next 2500 tournaments.
Damn, over 300 marshal?
You could say that, 130,000 penalty points and banned from next 2500 tournaments.
But you could legitimately claim that the chrono was moving at 186,00 miles per second and the paintball was perfectly still
RE.. the above two posts.
1) laughed so much it hurt.
2) Now I've definately done myself an injury.
1) laughed so much it hurt.
2) Now I've definately done myself an injury.