Recent content by bothan

I agree about not getting burned out. If you do too much of something or feel obligated to do it, that can take away the fun. Like if you bowl for fun and then become a professional bowler. In any case, k-12 education moves far too slow. Good for you for staying ahead, always try to...

I'm a little tipsy so I'm going to save the thoughtful response for later. I am at a bar and experimented with the pool balls. One moving ball hitting another moving ball transfers the momentum into the other ball fully and due to my imperfect operation of this experiment haha the first ball...

These responses are very helpful but also bring up more questions and make me wonder which combination of factors fully explains the phenomenon. Here is what they are saying about it on pinside https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-live-catch-magic-or-physics#post-1895784 Here is a...

http://youtu.be/GdlZS-0SAaw Most of the skills I've learned I learned online because of the lack of pinball players these days. When I go to play pinball there are usually zero to two other people playing even at the best spots for pinball in the area. Thankfully my area had a pinball league...

Thanks. So what causes the difference between the effectiveness of a live catch verses just having the flipper held up and waiting for the ball? If you do a live catch right the ball will come to a complete stop which I've never seen happen when the flipper is just held up waiting for the ball.

I have been using this skill for a few months now and I feel like it is magic. It's been driving me crazy how this works... I have only ever taken AP high school (non calc based) physics and one thing I remember is that for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction so the force...