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Calculations
Tan(.1 degree) => Get your facts. My calculations over 60 feet is a 1.2 inch difference. That means the faster ball would rise 1.2 inches if released from the same angle. I know, I know, it doesn't RISE because it only appears to fall less than normal due to gravitational influences. Add the air resistance passing around 100 mph fastball and the gravitaional effect will decrease even more as the target trajectory approaches a straight line -> FLIGHT.
Now when does a rise appear. I have read 150 mph and 135 mph. But was that in Denver or LA? Anyone care to recognize the difference in atmospheric conditions?
Don't let that little baseball fool you. Don't drop the ball like the grown adult reaching up into the sky only to have it fall right behind him. Gee, why didn't the ball come straight down. You may answer SPIN, but it actually has to do with falling through increasing AIR PRESSURE -> LIFT. What are the needed ingredients for FLIGHT?
The Fermi lab guys have their hands full w/ more impt things. Now I only suppose the Fermi guys say a baseball cannot achieve LIFT at 100 mph? I would hope they know something about FLIGHT characteristics: 1) Atmosphere, 2) Velocity, 3) Lift! I tend to think the conditions are RIPE.
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