Pool Table Physics with Dr. Dave Alciatore

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🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
0:18.0	And you know we have to get here eventually.
0:21.0	On this episode, we're doing the physics of billions.
0:25.0	Yeah, I said it billions.
0:27.0	It's all the pool. I guess it's also pools.
0:30.0	Is that right? That's right.
0:32.0	Yeah, yeah, the physics of that.
0:34.0	And you know this physics going on on that pool table.
0:36.0	That's right.
0:37.0	And so we're a long overdue for handling this.
0:39.0	And I got with me my trusty co-host Chuck Knife, Chuck.
0:43.0	Hey, that's right.
0:45.0	Well, my favorite subject's pool.
0:47.0	I could have bought another house with all the money I've lost.
0:50.0	They're pooling.
0:51.0	Okay, thank you.
0:54.0	It comes out for the first time on Star Talk.
0:57.0	There you go.
0:58.0	Chuck's debts in life.
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