The upshift time for the Atom’s Sadev ST-90 six-speed sequential racing gearbox is about 40 milliseconds—a tenth of an eye blink. In those 40 milliseconds, the atoms zipping beneath us around the underground loop of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would have traveled nearly 7500 miles, more than twice the distance from Seattle to Miami. By the time I’d reached 60 mph in about three seconds without trying, the LHC atoms were 560,000 miles away—nearly 325,000 miles beyond the moon. Game over, little car. Even when you have 475 horsepower and a feather-light (claimed) 1213-pound curb weight, 99.9999991 percent of the speed of light is not a velocity to be trifled with. Even more humiliating for the Atom V-8, the LHC may have just observed a speed even faster than that of light.
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