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Originally Posted by Anton
The explosion would occur in a specific place inside that space and pieces of matter would fly away from that point in all directions at approximately the same speed. Each piece would maintain its speed. No force would act to increase it.
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I'm afraid I must disagree. If you took a sphere of 'perfect' explosive, one in which every particle of it's mass repelled every other particle with the same force, then the particles on the outer edge would move the fastest due to having the combined forces of everything else pushing against them. This force would get steadily less as you look deeper because there would be less particles to supply the force. Each piece would maintatin its speed. No force would be needed to increase it. Each piece would already be moving in the appropriate way.