At this moment: “Come on, what will happen?” If you are one of those saying this, think again. Doesn’t such a speed sound quite dangerous? What will happen if this object enters the atmosphere? Or could it actually harm the Earth?

A Turkish delight that moves at the speed of light, What kind of socks can you knit for us? Let’s take a closer look at that.

The speed of light in space is about 300,000 km per second.

An object moving at such a high speed It can orbit the Earth 7.5 times in about 1 second. As we all know, no matter or object can travel faster than light. Because the more an object moves, the more its mass increases.

What if we wanted to move this object at the speed of light? At this speed, the mass of that object becomes infinite. Of course, it is also possible to move an object of infinite mass. It means that endless energy is required.

If that’s the case, this scenario would be impossible (I mean, no one has been able to make it happen so far). But this does not hinder our imagination!

Let’s say Alper Gezeravcı took a Turkish delight to the International Space Station; If this Turkish delight manages to escape from that pressurized environment begins to expand in volume. The reason for this is that the small air bubbles in the Turkish delight get stuck.

The air bubbles in the Turkish delight expand and begin to swell, It is due to the elimination of air pressure in the vacuum of space. Now it’s time to throw this joy to the earth.

The moment this delight enters the earth’s atmosphere, starts hitting atmospheric particles and therefore gradually disintegrates. In fact, the fact that the Turkish delight exists in small pieces would be a blessing, because if this object were to remain as a whole, it would cause strong collisions due to its speed of light.

To make this scenario a bit more realistic, it is useful to remember the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

Chelyabinsk meteorite

This meteorite passed over Russia about 11 years ago. An explosion with a height of 19 to 24 km it had caused. About 1,000 people were injured in this explosion, which had a mass of 11,000 tons.

Now let’s think again about what kind of power this Turkish delight, moving at the speed of light, has and what it can do. This joy comes from the strength that took place during the Chelyabinsk incident It would hit the Earth with almost four times the force.

Furthermore, a 2019 NASA simulation predicted that if such a disaster scenario were to occur, It could result in the deaths of more than 1.3 million people. predicted.

In summary: an object, regardless of whether it is a meteorite or a Turkish delight, If it has the speed of light, hitting the Earth will cause a disaster.

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