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    A ball struck by a cue in billiards with English goes straight at first....

    That sounds like a really easy way to do it.
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    A ball struck by a cue in billiards with English goes straight at first....

    The 6 corners (or vertices) of a regular octohedron are equally spaced on a sphere. The measle ball dots must be the vertices of a regular octohedron. Here are some links on the geometry: https://study.com/academy/lesson/octahedron-definition-properties.html...
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    A ball struck by a cue in billiards with English goes straight at first....

    This subject is more complicated than most of these answers have suggested. It is pretty well understood by serious practitioners of the billiards arts. For a good introduction see the links at this website: http://billiards.colostate.edu/threads/squirt.html. Basically there are a number of...
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    I've heard so many horror stories....

    Physicists play important roles in all sorts of technological endeavors. Most technology projects have all sorts of engineers in a team. When a problem occurs, there are usually multiple solutions that can solve the problem. Each discipline will push for a solution that uses their particular...
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