Think about it. It can kill anything or pierce through anything, because its relativity is not there, it does not care about atomic structure. We can freeze the molecules and harden it so much to the point where it’s unable to be broken. We could make it the size of a tennis ball. That is all just my shower thought, nothing much.
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You can't move objects at the speed of light unless they're massless like gluons & photons. It would take almost infinite energy to get close.
Furthermore the energy required to accelerate an object - even by spinning - would heat it up.
What if it never reaches the atomic structure?
I mean you could hypothetically use quantum tunneling to phase objects into or through a person. Speeding it up too fast would actually be a bad thing because particles get less wave-like the faster they go.
Einstein says this can't happen anyway.
Also if this is a spinning disk where on the disk is it spinning the speed of light and what material won't break up from forces.
Yeah it's the rod problem of getting a galaxy long rod and trying to spin it faster than c. The electrostatic force uses photons so it would work as people think
IF you could accelerate an object to the speed of light... Any particle, even air, would impact with that object at such speed, it would undergo fusion with that object. Billions of fusion reactions. Basically a nuclear bomb going off continuously.
I feel like this is the wrong forum for this, but I'm interested anyway so fuck it.
Any sizable object moving at near C would be devastating long before it hit something if it is moving through an atmosphere. Even the most aerodynamic object ever would compress the air, dust and germ particles in front of it so fast it would super heat to the point of being fire. If not nuclear fire. An in atmosphere object going C or near C would kill everything in the city it was fired in. If not further. And would almost certainly do so before the object reached the target. A leading edge of fire doing the heavy lifting instead of the object itself
Super weapon? Holy moly
Yup. But good luck accelerating anything with mass to that speed. It's devastating for a reason. The reason being if it ever happens something has gone terribly wrong in the world of physics
Is this similar to the rods from a satellite idea?