Indeed. Most high-level athletics now consider a movement within 0.1 of a second of the start signal as being a false start. I'm not too keen on it, personally, as I think being attuned to what's going on around you is part of being a top-level athlete. As long as they don't move before "the gun" goes off, it should be considered fair.
On 29/04/2014, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > What you're saying is, she jumped the gun, except that by the time the > action actually took place the gun had been fired. > > On 4/29/2014 9:43 AM, mike wilson wrote: >> On 28/04/2014, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Watching drag racing on ESPN. A young lady pro stock driver, Erica >>> Enders, >>> just posted a . 006 reaction time. Now that's fast. >> More than a little bit faster than the message can get to the brain >> and back, in fact. >> >> "The conduction speed of signals in the brain is about 100 m/sec, and >> in the central nervous system falls to about 70 m/sec. Just getting >> the signal from the brain to the feet could take 0.026 seconds >> (assuming you are 1.8 m tall)." >> >> http://condellpark.com/kd/reactiontime.htm >> >>> Paul via phone >>> >>>> On Apr 27, 2014, at 8:42 PM, "Ken Waller" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> .228 of a second >>>> >>>> Kenneth Waller >>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Cottrell" >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: OT - How quick are you? >>>> >>>> >>>>> Had three goes, average of about .25 of a second, I'm a bobbing >>>>> bobcat..... >>>>> >>>>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
