Science and Sports

Science proves there are limits to progress, even in sports. Take baseball for example:

What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?:

The ball is going so fast that everything else is practically stationary. Even the molecules in the air are stationary. Air molecules vibrate back and forth at a few hundred miles per hour, but the ball is moving through them at 600 million miles per hour. This means that as far as the ball is concerned, they’re just hanging there, frozen.

Read the whole thing.

(Via New Advent.)

Notre Dame 20, UCLA 6

Between this and the Canucks winning one, I have something to be grateful for.

Notre Dame 20, UCLA 6: "Goodbye, monkey (on back)! The offense isn't brilliant, but the defense has been and is good enough that if they're given any chance at all, the games can be a fight. Hopefully this will give 'us' the confidence we need to be competent the rest of the way. We'll need it, as next week the (hated, loathed, abhorrent) Boston College team comes to town."

(Via The Chess Mind.)

Monday, Monday

The weather matches my mood. The Padres blew their play-off chances, three times. Notre Dame has suspended football for this year. They're sending in their junior varsity squad just to satisfy contractual obligations. The Chargers are sinking fast.

But wait, all is not lost. Hockey starts for us on Friday. How I love Autumn.