world's biggest pool table

markjames

markjames

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crazy question. on a pool table of impossible size, how far could you hit a cueball? i'm thinking maybe from union square to central park.
 
Not very far I would think, since a full-power break shots are only about 30 mph and the ball will be in constant contact with the cloth instead of airborne. So imagine throwing a ball at 30mph and how far it would go. A pool shot would travel much, much less farther than that...
 
Well, you have sort of an answer in that the most rails ever gotten was twelve, which I believe is 3x around the table. just guessing that's about 18ft per trip so 54ft. So I think that if it were a straight line with regular cloth the pool ball could travel much much farther than that before the friction slows it to a stop. In the 12 rails shot the pool ball is being braked by the cloth and the rails.

I think the most I have ever gotten is four table lengths up and down, which is 28ft without the cue ball leaving the table.

I bet you could shoot a pool ball a couple hundred feet at least.

Reminds me of the old Titanic Thompson story where he bet he could hit a golf ball a mile. When the bet was right he took everyone to a frozen lake and whacked it. Everyone paid off and no one bothered to measure it.
 
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