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Profanz said:
How is gravity for instance automatically more powerful than a pool ball being shot at another pool ball? Are you saying that the cue ball is being slowed down by gravity?
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gravity causes friction between the cue ball and the table. this friction, causes the ball to slow down.
 
Dog Town said:
Stundied!
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Hey dogtown? I want to know. Does the cue ball stop because of gravity, or because of the thing that it hits that is of the same size and mass of what it is being hit by? The same thing that is standing still when it is hit. Can you follow?

I want to know what you think you know.
 
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Profanz said:
Hey dogtown? I want to know. Does the cue ball stop because of gravity, or because of the thing that it hits that is of the same size and mass of what it is being hit by?
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Try it without gravity... GENIUS!
 
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fact: even before the cue ball hits another ball..it is being slowed down by friction. if there was no other ball in its way..the cue ball would still eventually stop..due to friction.

friction, in this case, is caused by gravity.
 
Thunder said:
gravity causes friction between the cue ball and the table. this friction, causes the ball to slow down.
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The gravity doesn't slow the cue ball down except when it is traveling. What the cue ball hits is what stops it. That would be the other ball. In fact the only time gravity is at work on the cue ball is when it is traveling at a high velocity before it even hits the other ball. Once it hits the other ball it's all over. It stops.
 
Profanz said:
Once it hits the other ball it's all over. It stops.
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Have you ever, even played pool?
Math is your friend...well, maybe not yours!

Don't make me Stundie you again...re-peats are soooo lame!
 
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Profanz said:
In fact the only time gravity is at work on the cue ball is when it is traveling at a high velocity before it even hits the other ball.
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wrong. very very wrong.

gravity is ALWAYS acting upon the cue ball. before it is hit, as it is being hit, and after it is hit. the instant the cue ball leaves the pool stick, it immediately starts slowing down, due to the friction caused by gravity. When the cue ball strikes the other ball, the cue ball stops, due to the opposing mass of the other ball AND the friction of the table.

are Truthers and physics, mutually exclusive?
 
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I have a good idea if you're all hooked on gravity being so destructive. Get a tube and drop all 9 ball down it straight up. Place the cue ball on top of all of them. Pull out the ball right underneath the cue ball really fast so that it drops down on the remaining eight balls. Then watch the cue ball destroy all eight balls all the way down. And really fast too!

Right debunkers?
 
Profanz said:
I have a good idea if you're all hooked on gravity being so destructive. Get a tube and drop all 9 ball down it straight up. Place the cue ball on top of all of them. Pull out the ball right underneath the cue ball really fast so that it drops down on the remaining eight balls. Then watch the cue ball destroy all eight balls all the way down. And really fast...
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You aren't very good at this, are you?
 
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