A spinning object has its path stabilized because it's spinning. You can be physically a reasontinbe physicallana again, green fog. In baseball, chug, what is the pitch where the ball does not spin? I think they call that the flubber pitch. Now, that's te knuckle ball. Have you ever seen a knuckle ball? No, i have. But if its yudon't hove wind, you know exactly where that ball's ont land,. and from the arc tht it has been given.
How far back in the universe’s timeline can the JWST see? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the Coriolis Effect, hurricanes, the gridiron timeline of the universe, the physics of spinning objects, and much more!
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