I was watching a SciFi tv show where large objects had an outer speed limit of 18000 kph and that got me wondering what things in everyday life are faster than even 500 kph.
I know bullets can be fast, but they are not exactly everyday life (at least in my life).
I included mass for obvious relativistic reasons.
Not so long ago I would have said electrons in a CRT screen (old school TV). When the electrons leave the accelerating anode, they are traveling at a reasonable fraction of the speed of light
Yeah but electrons have no massI’m stupid, I was thinking of photons.
I think that “with some mass” wasn’t meant literally but figuratively, specifically to exclude things like shooting subatomic particles.
I think OP means the kinda of things humans interact with and are able to perceive in their every day life.
Explain to us how we don’t interact with electrons in everyday life.
You conveniently skipped over the “and are able to perceive” part
No, I didn’t. We can perceive electrons in various ways.
You can perceive high speed electrons in various ways, in your every day life?
Ok, that level of pedantry is my job
That’s not what pedantry means.
The effects of subatomic particles, even high speed ones, are apparent even if you are unaware of the cause.
Perceiving the effects isn’t the same as perceiving the object, unless you take an extraordinarily pedantic definition of “perceive”.
And considering an individual electron to be an object that you perceive is likewise not commonly an everyday occurrence, unless you take a likewise pedantic definition of “object”.
And even the word “perceive” was my choice of word, describing specifically that I believed that the OP meant to exclude things like subatomic particles. So even in the end you’re still trying to argue that I didn’t really mean what I meant, due to word choice, which is also a very pedantic thing to do