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Obviously physics is involved, but aren't physicists accustomed to dealing with objects in a vacuum? Isn't the "rising fastball" question really more one of aerodynamics?
Anyone who has ever played wiffle ball (everybody on this forum, I'm sure) knows that a wiffle ball can rise on its way to the batter. And I would bet that nobody could make a 16-lb shotput rise. A baseball is somewhere in between. Does anyone doubt that a machine could be developed that could shoot a baseball through air and provide it with such spin that it would rise? It seems to me that the question is not whether it is possible, but whether a human being could do it.
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