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leroyjenkens said:That's hard to believe. I'm pretty confident that I could draw a gun and fire it as my opponent is just starting to grab his gun.
If you've ever played "slaps", you'd know that the person who's getting slapped has a disadvantage. They get slapped way more than they avoid getting slapped.
I'd have to see high speed footage of people actually drawing guns, because everything I've experienced similar to that has been inconsistent with that hypothesis.
Good point, but some people don't feign. I don't feign. I sit perfectly still. It drives some people crazy.In the hand slap game, there's so much feigning though. Probably a game changer.
No, I think he's just that good.Are you suggesting Bohr's opponents let him win?
I don't. Bohr based all this on movies after all, pure fiction, and I think his results indicate a kind of self hypnosis that he was able to press onto his colleagues/opponents, or to which they already subscribed, having seen the same westerns: the good guy waits for the bad guy to draw, but still beats him. Bohr never went up against a real quickdraw. They can draw, fire, and hit the target at close range (say, ten feet) in .25 seconds. The best you could do was also hit them, but it's doubtful you could draw second and knock them out before they got their shot into your midsection.leroyjenkens said:No, I think he's just that good.
I'm not sure that there ever was in reality a contest of the type depicted in the cinema as a showdown. Perhaps in recent years, there have been some non-lethal contests using paint guns or other gadgets. As I understand the cinematic showdown, two people face each other with their hands near the handles of their pistols until one or the other decides to draw the weapon and fire it at the other one. There are three sets of rules: The rules of the showdown in reality, the rules of the showdown in the minds of the fictional characters of a movie, and the cinematic rules of the showdown. One cinematic rule is that the good guy has to wait for the bad guy to make the first move. This seems to point to a common sense rule in the minds of the fictional characters: If the one who makes the first move kills the other, then he is guilty of murder. The good guy waits so that he can claim that he fired in self-defense. Indeed, such a cinematic rule makes so much sense because that is the rule of the showdown in reality (or rather, it is a rule of life that precludes real showdowns). Contrast this with the duel. This also has three sets of rules. However, we know that duels actually occured. The reason they could take place is that there is a third party who drops a handkerchief, or provides some other signal that relieves the dueling parties of making the first move.zoobyshoe said:I agree with you that the person who draws first has the advantage.
Niels Bohr is most famous for his contributions to the development of the atomic model, specifically the Bohr model of the atom. He also made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and the understanding of the periodic table of elements.
The Bohr model is a simplified model of the atom that depicts electrons orbiting the nucleus in specific energy levels. This model was a major advancement in atomic theory and helped to explain the behavior of electrons in atoms.
Bohr's understanding of the atom and nuclear physics was crucial in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. His insights into the structure of the atom helped scientists to harness the power of nuclear fission.
Bohr's concept of complementarity states that objects can have both wave-like and particle-like properties, and the behavior of an object can only be fully described by taking both aspects into account. This idea was a key component of the development of quantum mechanics.
The Copenhagen interpretation, named after Bohr's hometown, is a fundamental interpretation of quantum mechanics that was developed by Bohr and other scientists. It states that the behavior of particles on the quantum level is inherently unpredictable and can only be described probabilistically.