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Originally posted by Camron Rust
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If you want to really get technical about it all, a player can never touch the object or OOB. At the atomic level, there is ALWAYS space between the atoms of the players body or clothing and any other object (unless they are capable of spontaneous cold fusion). Therefor, by the laws of physics, there can never be an OOB violation, nor a legal throw-in, jump ball, foul, etc. [/B]
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Sorry, but the atomic level has nothing to do with it.
It is at the molecular level where we see that not only is the player out-of-bounds for standing on the towel but the out-of-bounds is now inbounds and the inbounds is now out-of-bounds. This is through a process known as molecular migration where the molecules of contacting objects flow between each other and collide when doing so.
While this is all said tongue in cheek when it comes to basketball, molecular migration is a very serious problem in some areas. A few years back the Red Cross had to destroy a large quantity of blood because the bags being used at that time were contaminating the blood through migration.