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[buckshotshoey]

For those interested in deep physics....

Can Your Gravitational Pull Affect Your Game of Pool?

It’s hard enough to predict the outcome of ball collisions in a game of billiards. Do you also have to factor in a player’s effect on the cue ball?

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[Chicken Feather]

For those interested in deep physics....

Can Your Gravitational Pull Affect Your Game of Pool?

It’s hard enough to predict the outcome of ball collisions in a game of billiards. Do you also have to factor in a player’s effect on the cue ball?

www.wired.com

Darn! I thought it was going to prove that body english does help

 

[pwd72s]

Paging Dr. Dave...

 

[wakuljr]

I read that also, there goes my last excuse. Damn science!!

 

[Fatboy]

I read that also, there goes my last excuse. Damn science!!

it does work, but talking to the balls works better. Trust me on this, keep practicing your body English and talking to the balls. You’ll see-you will improve. It’s when you stop talking to them or the body English the balls don’t perform as well.

Best
Fatboy <———-serious post, practice practice practice and you’ll play better

 

[chefjeff]

it does work, but talking to the balls works better. Trust me on this, keep practicing your body English and talking to the balls. You’ll see-you will improve. It’s when you stop talking to them or the body English the balls don’t perform as well.

Best
Fatboy <———-serious post, practice practice practice and you’ll play better

You know why the balls can't listen?

Cuz if they had ears, they wouldn't roll straight.


Jeff Livingston

 

[chefjeff]

All players here are free to use that great punchline at league this week.

I'll waive all copyright fees for the Christmas season.

You're welcome,


Jeff Livingston

 

[hang-the-9]

This is why I always have my league team stand across from the pocket I am shooting at to help it along with some extra gravity.

 

[chefjeff]

This is why I always have my league team stand across from the pocket I am shooting at to help it along with some extra gravity.

That's heavy, man.



jeff Livingston

 

[TheBasics]

Howdy All;

I talk to the balls to remind them of the gravity of the situation.

hank

yea, I can say that with a straight face. chucklin'

 

[wakuljr]

it does work, but talking to the balls works better. Trust me on this, keep practicing your body English and talking to the balls. You’ll see-you will improve. It’s when you stop talking to them or the body English the balls don’t perform as well.

Best
Fatboy <———-serious post, practice practice practice and you’ll play better

I do talk to the balls but I had to stop cause they started talking back, worst part is they were right. just kidding, they arent always right!!

 

[Fatboy]

I do talk to the balls but I had to stop cause they started talking back, worst part is they were right. just kidding, they arent always right!!

When they talk back, and they do, it’s clear you have been playing enough

 

[HueblerHustler7]

lol Yes Ive read and seen videos covering this, Gravity effects all and down to where you are located in the world, Even people discussing friction and magnetism. OH no The balls are rolling funny they are sticking together lol

 

[Dan White]

For those interested in deep physics....

Can Your Gravitational Pull Affect Your Game of Pool?

It’s hard enough to predict the outcome of ball collisions in a game of billiards. Do you also have to factor in a player’s effect on the cue ball?

www.wired.com

His stated assumptions say there is no friction. I have to think this is a deal killer in the real world. In his hypothetical model there is a small amount of difference cause by the player's mass -- but even that is more than I would have guessed. If this is about collisions in deep space that's one thing but on a pool table with friction and inelastic collisions I'm thinking the difference would be zero out to however many decimals you want to go.

 

[wakuljr]

So where does quantum loop gravity come factor in?

 

[Bob Jewett]

For those interested in deep physics....

Can Your Gravitational Pull Affect Your Game of Pool?

It’s hard enough to predict the outcome of ball collisions in a game of billiards. Do you also have to factor in a player’s effect on the cue ball?

www.wired.com

The guy didn't pick a very good shot setup to see the effect. The largest change in the path of the balls for a small change in the original path of the cue ball happens on thin cuts. He has most of his nine balls close to each other -- another thing that reduces variations -- and with nearly full hits.

I think there are also situations where a very small initial change has a multiplied effect. Here's a kiss shot that might do the trick.... Consider a ball a few inches from a cushion and the cue ball coming in nearly perpendicular to the cushion to just skim the ball then the cue ball hits the cushion and comes back and kisses the object ball a second time. The second hit will be fuller for a thinner initial hit both because the OB will not have moved as far out of the path of the bouncing cue ball but also because the cue ball will not have been deflected as far. Here's the shot:

And here's a "gauntlet" for the cue ball to run through. Any small error at the start is going to be multiplied by each successive contact. With a thin hit, that multiplication of angular error can be a factor of 10 or more on each collision.

 

[Bob Jewett]

His stated assumptions say there is no friction. I have to think this is a deal killer in the real world. In his hypothetical model there is a small amount of difference cause by the player's mass -- but even that is more than I would have guessed. If this is about collisions in deep space that's one thing but on a pool table with friction and inelastic collisions I'm thinking the difference would be zero out to however many decimals you want to go.

The friction is more or less irrelevant because the ball is in motion. The gravity is just another form of table roll. As long as the ball is in motion, the force of gravity sideways will have an effect.

 

[straightline]

I use psychogravitationalkinesis. It's the only way to get enough juice into it.

 

[Dan White]

The friction is more or less irrelevant because the ball is in motion. The gravity is just another form of table roll. As long as the ball is in motion, the force of gravity sideways will have an effect.

I'm saying that any potential gravity effect from the body will be negated by the friction of the cloth preventing any sideways motion. I believe there is a small depression in the cloth created at the ball/cloth contact point and this will prevent that table roll effect... but then I am not a physicist.

 

[chefjeff]

My cue hits a ton.

Not in weight, but mass.


Jeff Livingston