Comments on: Baseball and Relativity http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/08/baseball-and-relativity/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:26:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Relative Timeliness | Cosmic Variance http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/08/baseball-and-relativity/comment-page-1/#comment-1286 Relative Timeliness | Cosmic Variance Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:23:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/08/baseball-and-relativity/#comment-1286 [...] Well, I may have more evidence that something has happened to the senior editing and production staff at NPR. Recall that Monday on All Things Considered there was an extended commentary on baseball, heavily spiced with Special Relativity, about which I posted. You’ll remember that I was pretty sure I was dreaming. They let good modern science be used in a lightly entertaining way in one of their pieces on sport. This was exciting and bodes well for the future. I realize it could be just for Einstein Year, and then they’ll go back to “protecting” the public from “hard” science after December 31st, but a man can dream, can’t he? [...] [...] Well, I may have more evidence that something has happened to the senior editing and production staff at NPR. Recall that Monday on All Things Considered there was an extended commentary on baseball, heavily spiced with Special Relativity, about which I posted. You’ll remember that I was pretty sure I was dreaming. They let good modern science be used in a lightly entertaining way in one of their pieces on sport. This was exciting and bodes well for the future. I realize it could be just for Einstein Year, and then they’ll go back to “protecting” the public from “hard” science after December 31st, but a man can dream, can’t he? [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/08/baseball-and-relativity/comment-page-1/#comment-1285 Clifford Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:07:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/08/baseball-and-relativity/#comment-1285 Hi Cathy! Hmmm - I've seen live a total of two baseball games and enjoyed them both, but I must confess that I was not so gripped by the game to imagine being a "fan", although the stadium atmosphere was fun..... Maybe I'll have to see a few more before making up my mind. There do seem to be long bits of not much happening (like in Cricket, admittedly - England won the second <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/07/21/ashes/" rel="nofollow"> Ashes</a> game by the way!)....now I know that during those long gaps one is supposed to be calculating relativistic corrections to the trajectories, etc, on one's ketchup-soiled napkin. Why didn't anyone tell me that before? -cvj Hi Cathy! Hmmm – I’ve seen live a total of two baseball games and enjoyed them both, but I must confess that I was not so gripped by the game to imagine being a “fan”, although the stadium atmosphere was fun….. Maybe I’ll have to see a few more before making up my mind. There do seem to be long bits of not much happening (like in Cricket, admittedly – England won the second Ashes game by the way!)….now I know that during those long gaps one is supposed to be calculating relativistic corrections to the trajectories, etc, on one’s ketchup-soiled napkin. Why didn’t anyone tell me that before?

-cvj

]]> By: Cathy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/08/baseball-and-relativity/comment-page-1/#comment-1284 Cathy Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:45:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/08/baseball-and-relativity/#comment-1284 Clifford, now I can make a baseball fan out of you! No sport is as centered around statistics as baseball, yet many people have compared it to opera. Oh, the arias! Now I am going to head home and hopefully watch the Angels kick Oakland's butt. Clifford, now I can make a baseball fan out of you! No sport is as centered around statistics as baseball, yet many people have compared it to opera. Oh, the arias! Now I am going to head home and hopefully watch the Angels kick Oakland’s butt.

]]> By: Sean http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/08/baseball-and-relativity/comment-page-1/#comment-1283 Sean Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:10:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/08/baseball-and-relativity/#comment-1283 Aaron Freeman is a Chicago-based comedian and commentator who is well-known for his appreciation of physics -- check out the photo on his <a href="http://www.afreeman.com/" rel="nofollow">home page</a>! He does a lot of pieces for Chicago Public Radio, including one on Fermilab that was genuinely enthusiastic about all those particles zooming around. Aaron Freeman is a Chicago-based comedian and commentator who is well-known for his appreciation of physics — check out the photo on his home page! He does a lot of pieces for Chicago Public Radio, including one on Fermilab that was genuinely enthusiastic about all those particles zooming around.

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