What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

I think the short answer would be; you, the baseball and the baseball bat would be vapourized! My math is a bit rusty, but think the energy released would be in the order of 1000 times the Hiroshima bomb!
 

Larry L.

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What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?


I wouldn't wanna TRY to find out!
Traveling at even one tenth the speed of light there's no way you would ever see it coming. o_O
Regardless, I'm in Trevor's camp as far as the probable outcome if you were to actually HIT the ball!
'Still theorizing regarding a near miss...
 
But man-O-man, if you could hit it with the right bat and the right arm....?? Holy smokes, that would be a record breaker.....

Have to watch it sail by with the James Webb.
 
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