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What happens if one grain of sand drops onto the earth ?

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Percent of the speed of light, will it destroy the planet earth?

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  • Andrew Smith
    Lv 7
    6 days ago

    Let us imagine that this was somehow possible.  You would already see that a fast enough bullet doesn't shatter a pane of glass.  In the same way the sand would bore a nice neat clean sand sized hole through the earth and would continue hardly slowed at all.

  • Anonymous
    6 days ago

    The universe would cease to exist because getting a grain of sand to travel at a speed so near the speed of light would require more energy than contained in the entire universe.

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