Reaction Times in Running Races

In sprinting races, if you move within nort point one seconds of the starting gun going off, that counts as a false start. It's known that you can't possibly have reacted that fast to the gun going off - so you must have started before you heard it go off. But an experiment done in 18 65 by a scientist called franciscus cornellis donders also worked out reaction times. He gave electric shocks to people's feet, and then he had them squeeze suff with their hands with a corresponding hand. People actually e reacted much, much faster than weata ha ha as,. whoe of the best sprinters are so short. Looking to sam bolt, he