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Let's borrow from one of Einstein's Princeton University models. First imagine that you could shrink yourself to the size of several seams and attach yourself safely onto the baseball. Then you would like to know what it feels like to take a ride atop a baseball. The only argument I have read so far in your physical model of reality is that your mini-mi would be very dizzy after riding on a 70 mph (coasting) curveball because of all that spinning. By extending your argument, mini-mi wouldn't be as dizzy riding a 70 mph (coasting) fastball because it doesn't spin as fast in any of the eight primal directions as it does during a curveball. There is something definitely missing from your argument.

This model basically fails because it doesn't even consider the surface AIR pressure difference between 70 mph and 100 mph. Mini-mi would be subjected to crushing forces on the forward side of the baseball to almost no force on the back side of the baseball. But there is another side to this coin. Ever heard the differnce between a used batting practice baseball at 70 mph and 100 mph. That NOISE flutter you hear is almost entirely due to AIR PRESSURE along the SEAMS. Failing to consider warm humid sea-level AIR pressure effects on the SEAMS of a 100 mph baseball is about as appropriate as believing someone cannot throw a ^RISING^ fastball. I CANNOT let that go as quietly as the SOUND DIFFERENCE on the CATCHER"S MITT,

Now who can ramp that up to 135 mph, TOODLES?