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Old 04-July-2008, 09:33 PM
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How close to the light speed would, say an electron (the lightest particle with a measured nonzero mass of (511 keV/c²) travel if you pumped all the mass-energy in the observable universe into it (4×10 to the 69th power Joules)?Just curious, as these particle speeds may have been in the first moments after Big Bang.
Well, let's see...

99.99999999999999999999999...(continued on page 4.38884752 E 437)...

...(continued from page 1)% of the speed of light.

That's just a wage, mind you...

Seriously - it would be as close as one could get.
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