Heavy Aramith Balls?

Speaking of science, here's an experiment you can do the next time you're down at the PH. Take the 15 ball and rub the number vigorously with your thumb until it is a little warm. Then smell the ball. That's some of the ball leaving. Ignore the funny looks you get. You are simultaneously making the ball lighter and larger and less massive.
 
Bob Jewett said:
Speaking of science, here's an experiment you can do the next time you're down at the PH. Take the 15 ball and rub the number vigorously with your thumb until it is a little warm. Then smell the ball. That's some of the ball leaving. Ignore the funny looks you get. You are simultaneously making the ball lighter and larger and less massive.
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No, bob. Just...no.
 
If the balls play sluggish, perhaps surface is too dirty or worn down. Have you tried cleaning them up with Aramith ball cleaner or restorer?

DrCue'sProtege said:
I almost always play with a set of Aramith SuperPro balls. I have had them for probably a dozen years or so. They have literally tons and TONS of playing time.

Is it normal for the balls to, for lack of a better term, age over the years? Could they be heavier now than they are supposed to be? Or is it my imagination that they seem heavier than what they should?

r/DCP
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Bob Jewett said:
That and also it has more buoyancy in the air.

I always have a portable barometer in my case for important matches and tricky shots. Jump shots in Denver are doubly hard to judge.

(On a related note, I used to clean and calibrate mercury barometers, which explains quite a bit. But I don't remember what.)
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Bob, you're supposed to be able to walk into the poolroom and siff the air and get all the readings you need.
 
Bob Jewett said:
That and also it has more buoyancy in the air.

I always have a portable barometer in my case for important matches and tricky shots. Jump shots in Denver are doubly hard to judge.

(On a related note, I used to clean and calibrate mercury thermometers,which explains quite a bit. But I don't remember what.)
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I've heard heavy metal affects one's memory.


And hearing... just ask my kid.


If he can hear you... :grin: :yeah:
 
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Please, show me, with a scale, where balls have gained weight over time.

Bueller..........Bueller..............Anybody?

This is not quite the most stupid thread, but it comes darn close.

All the best, for stupid threads,
WW
 
Bob Jewett said:
Speaking of science, here's an experiment you can do the next time you're down at the PH. Take the 15 ball and rub the number vigorously with your thumb until it is a little warm. Then smell the ball. That's some of the ball leaving. Ignore the funny looks you get. You are simultaneously making the ball lighter and larger and less massive.
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WOW! Bob, I was doing that today!!! I got barred for a week. The owner said he doesn't like that kind of s**t in his pool room.


So I'll be reading some this week... :wink:
 
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DrCue'sProtege said:
They are made of phenolic resin. As resin wears and heats up, it has a slight micro-tendency to expand. Therefore it is possible in the laboratory.

A chemist told me this over the weekend.

r/DCP
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That would only change their volume, not their mass.

KMRUNOUT
 
Bob Jewett said:
If a ball expands without gaining or losing material, it will weigh less but have the same mass.
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Um...is it somehow transporting to some other gravitational field other than earth's? It was my understanding that weight is a relationship between mass and gravitation (and of course distance), but really had nothing to do with volume. Explain please?

KMRUNOUT
 
hang-the-9 said:
If you can tell the effect of the balls heating up while in use and causing a difference to your feel of them, you should rent yourself out to science to study your brain and muscles. Aside from that anyone with a 5th grade or so science education should realize that expansion through heating does not mean weight gain.
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If you continue in school, and take some more advanced physics, you will learn that an object heating up specifically DOES experience weight gain. The object had all of its original mass, plus the additional mass equivalent of the additional heat energy now present in the object. The difference in mass is minuscule, but Einstein and others have a fair degree of confidence in the whole E=mc^2 thing. Its actually quite interesting. An object in motion, likewise, has a greater mass than the identical object at rest. The difference is most often negligible in classical mechanical physics. This really comes into play big time when discussing cosmological topics with really huge numbers and velocities.

KMRUNOUT
 
WildWing said:
Please, show me, with a scale, where balls have gained weight over time.

Bueller..........Bueller..............Anybody?

This is not quite the most stupid thread, but it comes darn close.

All the best, for stupid threads,
WW
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Accelerate a pool ball (or any object with mass) to near the speed of light. It will have greater mass.

That said, I think you have made your disdain for this poster's question loud and clear now several times.

Best,

KMRUNOUT
 
Is it possible that the gravitational pull of a full moon would not only make the balls heavier but make the ball’s slightly oblong.

I sure this is why my full moon game sucks, or is that pulls.
 
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Poolhall60561 said:
Is it possible that the gravitational pull of a full moon would not only make the balls heavier but make the ball’s slightly oblong.

I sure this is my my full moon game sucks, or is that pulls.
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The moon affects pool balls if you wash them with Tide.
 
Michael Andros said:
WOW! Bob, I was doing that today!!! I got barred for a week. The owner said he doesn't like that kind of s**t in his pool room.


So I'll be reading some this week... :wink:
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No s^*t brother. Rubbing and smelling the balls in a poolroom? Just go ahead and paint the giant L-for-loser on your forehead before you walk in 'cause you're gonna get HAMMERED by anybody witnessing such lunacy. C'mon Bob, REALLY????????????? ;)
 
garczar said:
No s^*t brother. Rubbing and smelling the balls in a poolroom? Just go ahead and paint the giant L-for-loser on your forehead before you walk in 'cause you're gonna get HAMMERED by anybody witnessing such lunacy. C'mon Bob, REALLY????????????? ;)
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Have you tried it yet?:groucho:
 
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