If you ’re peculiar about what would occur if a absolutely hit cue ball pip a perfectly align pool gouge absolutely in the center , well here ’s what it will appear like . It ’s mathematically complete . Not even the unspoilt kitty players in the macrocosm , magnet circuit breaker or robot can even get it to see like this .
Why ? Because it ’s just a basic math and physics trouble , after all . The animation below was created in Mathematica by Jim Belk , who I will take for granted is a whiz . In the math problem , the kitty globe in the wrack are absolutely pear-shaped and exactly as space from each other and perfectly concern all the balls they should be touching . The cue ballock is then hit , you guessed it , perfectly on a friction detached control surface and smack the center Lucille Ball of the rack right in the middle .
And here ’s what pass off :
There were theories that the ball in the rack would simply react like some kind of Newton ’s Cradle as the strength would be transferred through each ball and then released to the recess balls but that is assuming that the awkwardness of normal pool balls run to infinity . Belk says that pool balls do n’t exactly work on like that . So instead , we have some balls sticking together , some balls move up , some nut affect down and so forth . There you go , the mathematically arrant centered pool break ( I know , no one is breaking like this ) .
If you want to take a smell at Belk ’s bewitching math , it ’s over atMath Overflow .
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