Some effects don’t scale up in proportion with others; the Earth is more like a big raindrop than it is like a big baseball - it hardly has any rigidity or strength at all in comparison to its size. At best, the earth would ‘splash’ if it was used for cosmic baseball.
While we’re on completely irrelevant Baseball hijacks…
No, no, NO!!! Who’s on First!!
Never shall these words be spoken again.
Close, but you’re using the speed of a pitched ball for your equation. If memory serves a baseball can come in at 90 mph as was mentioned. But a bat connecting with that ball (in the sweet spot of the bat) will send it back out at 120-130 mph as the energy of the swing and the energy of the pitch are converted into ‘Home Run’ power. So your 0.04, above, should be more like 0.05-06, instead.
I’m assuming here that God has his swing timing down and sufficient bat control to wait for his pitch and use the fat part of the bat.
The real question is, is God taking steroids?
Could God create and then take steroids so powerful that He could then lift the rock that He created that was so large that even He couldn’t lift it?
What?
Only the one’s that were intelligently designed to beat the drug tests.
Well, I can just say that this must happen in Genesis, because it says, “In the big inning. . . .”
Here’s the thing. A baseball is held together by the chemical bonds between the atoms of the baseball. A hit that sends a baseball out of the park is pretty fast, but the forces that hold the baseball together are very strong relative to the size of the baseball.
Now imagine the baseball is 1000 times bigger. If you drop that baseball a foot it’s liable to break, because the chemical bonds that hold the baseball together are exactly the same strength, but the weight of the baseball is 1000 times greater. So any proportional forces that act on the giant baseball will effectively be acting on a body that is 1000 times more fragile than the small baseball.
Now consider a baseball the size of the Earth. At this size, the chemical bonds that hold the baseball together are pretty much irrelevant. The Earth isn’t held together because it’s a solid mass of rock, it’s held together by gravity. In fact, the Earth ISN’T a solid mass of rock, it’s mostly liquid rock with a thin solid outer shell. For any force that hit the Earth hard enough to knock the Earth out of the park if the Earth was scaled down to baseball size the solid nature of the Earth is negligible and can be ignored. The Earth will just explode.
But the giant bat you’re trying to hit the Earth with is pretty much physically impossible too, because the gravitational stress on the bat would compress it into a sphere. And if God uses magic antigravity to keep the bat from compressing into a sphere, he’s also going to have to use magic to keep the bat from snapping in half the minute he tries to move it. Regular chemical bonds that keep a regular sized bat in one piece are going to be of negligible strength in a bat millions of times larger than a regular bat…the chemical bonds that keep wood or aluminum in one piece are extactly the same strength, but have to resist forces millions of times stronger.
Here’s a simple experiment you can do. Get some legos. Stick two plain 2x4 bricks together. Hold this by one brick and wave it around. The other brick stays stuck on tight. Now take 20 bricks and stick them together. Hold this by one brick and wave it around. Likely the lego stick will break in half. Why? Because the forces holding the bricks together were exactly the same, but the forces tearing the bricks apart were 10 times larger. Now suppose you scaled up not just the length but also the width and the depth. Make the tower a 10x scale replica of the two brick tower in first example…10 bricks wide, 10 bricks deep, and 20 bricks long. Then wave around. Does the lego structure hold together? Probably not, because although you’ve increased the forces holding the structure together proportionally to the cross sectional area, you’ve increased the forces breaking the structure apart proportional to the volume. As you scale up the lego model at some point you get a lego structure so large that any push will send it shattering to the ground…even though the forces holding one lego piece to the other always stays exactly the same.
Oh, well played.
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I dunno but the catcher is goat se.
A normal-sized baseball bat? Absolutely nothing. Even if you convert all the bat’s mass into energy by swinging the bat at the speed of light, it’s still not going to come even close the energy release in even a comparatively slow 2-mile asteroid impact, even though it’s only converting a very small percentage of the asteroid’s mass to energy.
This is entertaining. Let’s re-word the OP using a slinghsot instead of a bat. A slingshot made of unobtainium, of course.
Do-able?
That would even make it a little more ‘Biblical’ too.
I’m up. Is that the number of rasins in a box of Kelloggs Rasin Brand?
Anyway, please use the exponential equivilent to show me how big this number is. Sounds impressive. 
10[sup]165[/sup]. That and even bigger ones here.
Eh, not really. It’s more than a googol, but a googol isn’t really that much… kinda.
Quattorquinquagintillion = 10^165
or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Well, if the raindrop analogy mentioned upthread is accurate, you would need a bowl-shaped cup in your slingshot, and even so, the earth would be scrambled unless the acceleration was really slow. You’d also need elastic unobtainium, such as a magical, infinitely stretchable being like Reed Richards or Plastic Man. And just imagine the look on said being’s face if he happens to be doing the “catching”. :eek:
What about a corked bat?