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Re:Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass by bee_rider on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @10:37AM (#43547302)
That’s pretty bad. On top of being unfair, it was a total missed opportunity to talk about the law of large numbers (I wonder if they could get a decent sample by combining everybody’s measurements) or skew (maybe everybody is a couple milliseconds too low just based on reaction time).

Or there could be some air resistance if you used, like, ping-pong balls.

Re:Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass by borgster on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:03PM (#43551804)
Correct. Ask anyone who plays blitz/bullet chess online. Games are won and lost in the final second of gameplay.