Hah! I bet this "scientist" is on Al Gore's payroll too with the global warming nonsense!
Christians don't need scientists to tell us who's good and who's evil!
Crucify them!
Ask A Scientist: Deflategate Is Trumped Up Nonsense
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...flategate.html
Ask A Scientist: Deflategate Is Trumped Up Nonsense
Note to scandal seekers: Gases lose volume when it’s cold, meaning the Patriots may not have done anything wrong.
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick says that he is “not a scientist,” but a basic law of physics taught in high school may well vindicate his team in the controversy dubbed DeflateGate.
On a blackboard, the Ideal Gas Law is written thus:
PV=nRT
The P stands for pressure, the V for volume. The n is the amount of gas, the R a mathematical constant. The T is temperature.
Among other things, the equation establishes that if the volume is a constant such as the inside of a football, then the pressure will vary in accordance with the temperature.
Let’s say the internal pressure of a football is measured indoors, as the footballs were two hours before the AFC Championship game last weekend.
And let’s assume that the temperature inside was in the mid-70s Fahrenheit.
Now we know that the temperature on the field was around 50 degrees when the balls were brought out for the start of the game.
We also know that the temperature soon after dropped into the mid-40s.
And, as calculated by a prominent Boston physicist at the request of the Daily Beast, a 30-degree decrease in temperature would result in a corresponding pressure drop of 1.54 PSI (pounds per square inch.)
“You’re on the right track,” Dr. Michael Naughton, chair of the Department of Physics at Boston College, confirmed when contacted by The Daily Beast on Friday.
Naughton was as cautious as is any good scientist when it comes to speculation, but he ventured, “What’s not unreasonable is that footballs initially measured in a typically warm room and then brought outside and used in a 40s temperature field will have dropped one and a half to two PSI.”
This would mean that balls inflated in the warmth of the indoors to the regulation lower limit of 12.5 PSI—which the Patriots are said to prefer—would have dropped to less than 11 PSI in the first half.
That would explain why all but one of the 12 Patriot game balls came in under the limit when they were tested at the half, triggering DeflateGate and the accompanying accusations of cheating.
All the game balls of the opposing Colts tested within the regulation limit, but that could be because they were initially inflated to the upper limit of 13.5 PSI.
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