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Old Fri Dec 13, 2002, 12:53am
Whowefoolin Whowefoolin is offline
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Tie goes to a runner?

OK, in theory that I heard somewhere...

If the ball and runner arrive the same time, and the brain registers this, then you must determine which happened first. Therefore...

Light is faster than sound, correct.

If you see the foot (light) hit the bag at the same time that the thud of the ball (sound) happened, then it is determined that since sound travels slower that the ball hit the mitt before i t appeared that the foot hit the bag at the same time.
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