• udon
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    23 months ago

    What happens if you shoot them against each other with the same momentum?

    • @xavier666@lemm.ee
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      73 months ago

      I’m not a Physicist but since they have the same momentum, the marble will have a higher velocity. Let us assume the bowling ball weighs 6000 gm and the marble weighs 20 gm (average weight), the velocity ratio of the marble to bowling ball is 300:1 (300 times faster).

      If we assume that both of them are made of the same material, and you throw the bowling ball at 1 m/s, then the marble is launched at nearly Mach 1. I’m pretty sure it will create a neat hole in the bowling ball.

      I could be very wrong as well.

    • Lemminary
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      3 months ago

      They shatter. And everyone in the vicinity dies by shrapnel.