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“When a Baseball Becomes a Nuclear Bomb and Other Absurd Physics”
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Title: What If?
Author: Randall Munroe
Category: Science & Discovery
What happens if you pitch a baseball at 90% the speed of light? Randall Munroe's 'What If?' takes that playground question and shows you the real physics—where air molecules fuse in a thermonuclear explosion, vaporizing the batter and leveling the stadium.
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