Imagine the world's best/most powerful breaker on an endless pool table... how long does the cue ball travel?

[markjames]

thanks for that, it’s slightly uphill going uptown

it seems like a normal question to me

as in how far can you get on a tank of gas?

and the practical people call the question ridiculous because we’ll be fine for the next few blocks and there are gas stations everywhere

 

[Moe Szyslak]

Byrne looks like Shamos just farted in that photo

 

[Black-Balled]

 

[garczar]

Amazing how a stupid fkng question remains that way even with the passage of time. Oh how the world works in wondrous ways.

 

[nataddrho]

Amazing how a stupid fkng question remains that way even with the passage of time. Oh how the world works in wondrous ways.

Relax.

 

[skor]

Brand new Simonis 860, no rails and whoever you think has the best/most powerful break... how long does the cue ball travel? I've asked this a few people around the pool halls and been given some wild answers... from 40 feet to 40 miles. What's your guess?

Once you have the friction force known (can be tested and discovered as we know which cloth you mentioned). and if you have the breaker speed measured, than this thing can be calculated. but since you provide no sufficient data, than there is no answer.

If we talk hypothetical and there is no friction force and assuming the table is perfectly leveled, then regardless of the break speed, the CB will come to rest exactly at the center of the table, the CB will travel there even if you just put the CB on the table without even striking it.
But in real life there is friction, so call Simonis and the get the friction force value of the cloth ;-)

 

[MitchAlsup]

If we talk hypothetical and there is no friction force and assuming the table is perfectly leveled,

It is impossible to level a unbounded flat pool table slate on the curved surface of the earth.
The table would have to follow the curvature of the earth for the ball to never experience any uphill component of drag.

 

[skor]

It is impossible to level a unbounded flat pool table slate on the curved surface of the earth.
The table would have to follow the curvature of the earth for the ball to never experience any uphill component of drag.

nothing here is possible...

 

[maha]

being round, the earth that is, the ball would always be traveling downhill so at some point in time it would reach escape speed ( 25,000 miles an hour or 11.2 kilometers a second for you out of country players)

and go into outer space. just hope it never hits anyone along the way for their sake.

the real question might be will it start spinning the opposite way as it crosses the equator.