E still = MC2

A couple of weeks ago I made reference to some scientists who spent years and MILLIONS of $$$ trying to sped up a tiny particle faster than the speed of light, just for fun... Stick with me here and I will make it fun, maybe not worth your time, but fun (in the sense that making fun of science nerds is still fun even though we aren't in high school anymore...). They thought they had done it and I know how worried you all were that relativity had been compromised so I thought I would do a follow up. They just forgot one thing that I discovered when I was 17... Stupid scientist.



When I was 17 my friends and I found out if you were in a car going 30 miles per hour and threw a stolen pumpkin out the window the pumpkin was also going 30mph plus the velocity/force we threw it at (presumably 10mph, as the average basketball moves around 20mph to the rim) so the pumpkin is then moving 40mph at a non-moving mailbox = sweetness.
Well a pumpkin thrown from a car moving 75mph... (or 85mph with thrust increase applied - forget the rate of momentum loss for now) coming in contact with a mailbox = explosive fun for all!  except the mail box...

Lets take this example and exploit it.
Now given that the earth's revolutionary rotation puts it moving at 1,050 miles per hour and you are calculating something (a neutrino / pumpkin) moving near the speed of light the speed being measured in fractions of nano seconds, the speed of both the car you are throwing the pumpkin from and the car it's being thrown at become very important.

If car A is in front and moving at 75mph and car B is behind moving at 75 mph in the same direction, the pumpkin dropped out the window is moving at 75mph and decreasing velocity, (we'll say a loss of 5mph per second), if it takes 5 seconds for car B to meet the pumpkin, the pumpkin is now moving at 50mph and Car B is moving at 75mph which puts the impact at a disappointing 25mph of force impact. Which is what happened in the case of science.


Now if the cars are moving AT each other... totally different story... and list of charges for the police!


So in short after millions of dollar$ scientist forgot that both the car sending the pumpkin and the car receiving the pumpkin were moving at 75mph creating a pumpkin velocity offset. 


Where's my peace prize?