Million Dollar Proposition Shot? - How to Do It!

[Colin Colenso]

that link is bad... its a round vs flat earth video

It's a debunker's video... found via a link from Max Eberle's FB.

I have nothing to say on the other aspects of the video. Not relevant here, just some nice physics in action in the part I linked to. Though, go to the time segment I referenced to see the clip.

I'd use youtube clipping services but they seem to have problems at times.

Perhaps someone can download the short relevant part and upload and post a link. It's 1:40am where I am.

Colin

 

[Colin Colenso]

Is it on a gyro?

You were getting there Allen! Not sure I would have if I hadn't seen it first!

Colin

 

[Colin Colenso]

This link may work http://makeagif.com/b1dt5N

 

[(((Satori)))]

I feel somewhat let down with this answer. Voo doo would have been way cooler.

 

[Colin Colenso]

I feel somewhat let down with this answer. Voo doo would have been way cooler.

I think that's why magician's keep their secrets.

But it's a wondrous effect I think.

Colin

 

[(((Satori)))]

I think that's why magician's keep their secrets.

But it's a wondrous effect I think.

Colin

Im only playing. Yeah that is pretty cool.

 

[dr_dave]

Easy. Tape a string to the CB and tape the other end on the foot spot. A perfect circular arc every time.

I know that's probably not it, but I thought I'd try anyway.

I look forward to seeing you answer,
Dave

That's a great try Dave, but the CB is contacting nothing but the cloth surface during it's travel.

Another possiblility is to use a bar-box CB (containing metal filings) and line up a bunch of strong magnets in the arc pattern. That would satisfy your rules and be a lot easier than putting a pool table on a merry-go-round. :grin-square:

BTW, I still think the string is an easier and better solution.

Fun thread,
Dave

 

[(((Satori)))]

This link may work http://makeagif.com/b1dt5N

They tried this with a cyclop cueball and the thing rolled straight.

 

[SamLambert]

This is stupid.

I can make the cueball jump by itself after striking it with a legal shot and after it came to a stop.

Yup, just shake the table with a loader.

 

[Colin Colenso]

Another possiblility is to use a bar-box CB (containing metal filings) and line up a bunch of strong magnets in the arc pattern. That would satisfy your rules and be a lot easier than putting a pool table on a merry-go-round. :grin-square:

I still think the string is an easier and better solution.

Fun thread,
Dave

Nice ideas Dave, several possible solutions I guess.

I got to pose it as a somewhat unknown variable challenge.

A bit like a crime mystery, but far less likely to attract TV viewers

Cheersm
Colin

 

[dr_dave]

But it's a wondrous effect I think.

Agreed. What makes it even better is that the effect is called the "Coriolis Effect" ... and Coriolis wrote an awesome "pool physics" book in 1835 covering pretty much everything we today know about pool physics. (Although, I bet he never thought of putting a pool table on a carousel. :wink. For more info, see the Coriolis pool resource page.

Regards,
Dave

 

[Colin Colenso]

This is stupid.

I can make the cueball jump by itself after striking it with a legal shot.

Yup, just shake the table with a loader.

The last line is too humorous for me to take the first line personally.

Colin

 

[RiverCity]

I feel somewhat let down with this answer. Voodoo would have been way cooler.

Considering we were sent out to the hardware store to buy a left handed smoke pump, I think a call to Mama Juju is in order............

 

[Colin Colenso]

Considering we were sent out to the hardware store to buy a left handed smoke pump, I think a call to Mama Juju is in order............

I suspect she has another way of achieving the shot!

Would be weirdly curious to see her do it... well, just see her!

 

[Colin Colenso]

They tried this with a cyclop cueball and the thing rolled straight.

I thought about that for 2 seconds and then hahaha'd. That ball sure seems to fight gravity!:wink:

 

[Icon of Sin]

Well this was disappointing...

 

[Jaden]

you rotate the pool table while the shot is being made...

This shot is possible... the question is how!

I would have bet against it up until 10 minutes ago!

I wonder if anyone else knows how it can be done.

The white line is the CB's path, on a path that almost returns to it's starting point, arcing well beyond 180 degrees.

The ball is even weighted, no bias.

The table is level.


Who wants to guess, or back against it, or expose the secret of a shot that may bankrupt the geekiest of billiard enthusiasts?

As for clues... I'll offer what I can without divulging the secret too soon.

Note: The circularish path is my best attempt in paintbrush to show what is a smooth path taking this route.

Colin

Rotate the pool table, the ball is traveling straight, but the spinning table makes it appear to curve.

Jaden

eidt: didn't realize this was 6 pages long and had already been divulged, only saw and responded to the first post...

 

[Colin Colenso]

Well this was disappointing...

I suspect, if I'd offered the proposition, of how to draw a CB 6 foot, and informed you to hit it low and hard, you'd whine that there wasn't a Jack-Up Fairy!

 

[pt109]

Hah! I can do this shot backwards...
...'course, that might be the Coriolis effect.
:smile-us-down:

 

[JoeyA]

Not your every day pool thread.

Got here late for the party. Aye, this thread was Dunny rat fo shizzel. :wink:

I have to ask, when you are sending DaveM his MILLION DOLLARS?

JoeyA