Re: God damnit Bambu... You too Bob!

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Bambu <dmanasseri@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Look at the end of the video. No cue at all, no downward hit....ball
still curves, explanation follows.

If you listen to the audio, he plainly says at least six times that
the object ball goes straight. Even after his explanation of how a
sideways force *might* cause curve, he concludes with the sentence,
"This effect is so small, it is really hard to reproduce on a table
consistently."

And ironically, in his examples of sidespin where he is explaining
how these forces might cause curve (at 3:52), he says that a
slow-rolling ball with right spin might tend to curve to the right
slightly. But his ball with right spin when he says this takes a
small *left* turn. Of course, that small left turn has nothing to
do with spin, it is just dirt on the cloth, as he explained earlier
and demonstrated using the rolling ball with no sidespin.

Bambu, please watch the video that you try to keep using as
evidence. It disproves your hypothesis, it does not support it.

http://billiards.colostate.edu/normal_videos/new/NVB-7.htm

$.02 -Ron Shepard
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