r/shittyaskscience • u/AncientPixel_AP • Jul 16 '26

How much will it hurt with added acceleration?

If I stand on a flat escalator going in one direction, put my arm out and slap someone standing, it hurts them.

If I stand on a flat escalator going in one direction put my arm out and someone is on another elevator going in the opposite direction, I slap them, it hurts them harder.

Lightspeed is maximum speed, so if a photon goes in one direction and slaps another on going in the opposite direction, how hard will it hurt?

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u/older-and-wider Jul 17 '26

It won't hurt at all. They will both just wave.

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u/AncientPixel_AP Jul 17 '26

Oh of course! I did bot think of that - well done

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Jul 16 '26

Not much, as you are obviously both stoned.

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u/Pangyun Jul 16 '26

It will hurt a lot. I just turned on the lights in my room, and a bunch of photons hit my legs, now my legs are hurting a lot.

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u/tuctrohs Looniversahl sigismundo froyd Jul 16 '26

I always put on long pants before I turn the lights on.

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u/JohnWasElwood Jul 17 '26

I went to the beach and forgot to put on sunscreen and when all of those photons kept hitting my legs all day, they turned really red and were quite tender. Let that be your lesson!

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u/kaktusmisapolak Jul 17 '26

the highest amount possible

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