Hey guys what's up it's Charlie here and today we're going to be looking at what
if two bullets hit each other in the existence of humanity over 10 billion
bullets have been fired but what would happen if two bullets went right into
each other where they'd both be destroyed or where they form into one
solid clump or would some other kind of amazing thing happen well today we're
going to look at an experiment which found out exactly what would happen but
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actually happen if two bullets went right into each other well there's
actually two different answers to this but first let's look at a case where the
bullets are going at the same speed if the bullets were the same weight and
going at the same speed then they would have the same magnitude of momentum if
this was the case then they will actually collide off each other much
like two monster trucks ramming into each other the bullets would simply
bounce back that's because they're going at the same speed and are the same
weight so the momentum would be canceled out and go to zero this means when they
collide they will both come to a halt but now let's look at the second more
realistic case in this case let's say the weight of the two bullets are the
same but the velocities are different this means that one bullet would be
going faster than the other if that were to happen the bullets would splinter
directly into each other actually one of the bullets would splint it into the
other one but seeing as they both weigh the same both bullets would be damaged
and would splinter but really whichever one was going faster would be the one
which would collide into the other and splinter them both but do we actually
have any documented proof not in an experiment of two bullets actually
colliding well if you go to Gettysburg National Military Park Museum in
Pennsylvania you can see that in real life nearly 7 million bullets were fired
at the Gettysburg battle by a hundred and sixty thousand infantrymen and
because so many bullets were fired something very rare happened that is the
two bullets collided in midair however instead of the bullets hitting head-on
something different happens one bullet was flying through the air straight
when another one hit its side in this instance at the bullet to the side
actually went through the other bullet and that's because the two bullets going
to the side had a greater mass and velocity this means it was going faster
and weighed more than the bullet it went through similar events happened during
the siege of Petersburg during the siege of Petersburg two bullets actually did
hit head on head and amazingly just as I explained previously they turned into
one solid clump that's because they were going at the same velocity and had the
same mass so the bullets formed into one metal clamp and they stopped in their
tracks but what about in modern times using modern bullets what would happen
well Mythbusters actually did an experiment all about this at first they
tried to fire two rifles at each other however this was impossible as they
couldn't get them to fire at the same time so instead they suspended a bullet
in midair they they named a single rifle and fired the bullet did actually hit
the other bullet and it fused into one single mass so even if this happened
with the modern bullets we have today it would still form into one mass but is
this the case with every modern bullet well it sure is for some bullets but not
the r.i.p the r.i.p is the most scary and dangerous bullet known to man today
it stands for radically invasive projectile or r.i.p for short this
bullet is super strong and can go through Rock plywood metal or glass but
what sets this apart from the rest well basically it goes through solid objects
and then expands its energy that's because the tip of this bullet is made
up of tiny metal spikes when this bullet hits something the metal spikes fly
outwards piercing the surrounding area this will then create nine separate
holes into whatever it's fired at right now it's made by a Georgia based company
for the US Army and it's very very scary but I would love to see an experiment
with to our eyepiece going right into each other to see what would happen
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