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Can you change the state of matter by increasing the speed?
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[QUOTE="DaveC426913, post: 6142352, member: 15808"] You need to be careful about your frame of reference. If I were to throw a baseball at 50% of the speed of light, it would not change state (well, unless I did it within the atmosphere. Then it would change state rather spectacularly, but I digress...) A state change will happen if the [I]relative speed between[/I] molecules changes. The molecules have so much energy that it overwhelms the inter-molecular forces holding them together. But a baseball moving at .5c doesn't have much velocity difference between its molecules - after all in its reference frame, it is stationary. [/QUOTE]
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