David Tyson: You can calibrate all sides of the pool table down to a millimeter. He says people can learn about fractions and decimals that way too. On cloudy nights, every mountain telescope has a pull table for astrophysicists. We are all bad assswel; we're not world class, but we're better than you tink. And so this isi alert for all pool sharks out there. Watch out for astrophises.
What was Coriolis, of the Coriolis Effect, doing at the pool table? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice explore the science behind billiards and pool trick shots with billiard physicist Dr. Dave Alciatore.
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