Does A Curveball Break?
Neuroscientists at USC and American University suggest curveballs do not break. Here's a demo.
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Neuroscientists at USC and American University suggest curveballs do not break. Here's a demo.
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i pitch in a baseball league and strike out hitters with my curveball that 'does not break'
id like to see 'Neuroscientists at USC' try to hit it
that is cool. throw your cheese to a Trojan batter, oregon111, and see if it breaks....a car windshield, after launch over the centerfield wall.
The disk in the demo doesn't have laces like a baseball does... The bigger the laces, the more rotations, the bigger the break. Tell them to look at that next time. It doesn't take a neuroscientist to figure it out.
I am not sure that the researchers are suggesting that a curveball does not curve. The researchers appear to conclude that (i) a curve ball does curve (the "physical effect"), but (ii) our visual system may perceive the curve (ie, particularly the "break") as being larger than it is (a "perceptual" effect).
DFWTrojan, thats what they do to my changeup