Sadly, a disc could never approach the speed of light. If you had a high-strength steel disc that was 1-metre thick and 1 kilometre in diameter, it would come apart from centrifugal force at just 11 ...
Disc golf is a sport growing in popularity, but there hasn't been much research into the best techniques -- until now. Researchers and disc golf enthusiasts have determined the best thumb position on ...
I am always drawn to the Large Hadron Collider when considering questions like this. The LHC has a diameter of about 8.5 kilometres. When operating, it uses the equivalent of about a third of the ...