NFL investigating weather affects on footballs

[ucrenegade]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/s...ts-deflated-footballs.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

A law firm hired by the N.F.L. to investigate footballs used by the New England Patriots has formally asked the Columbia University physics department for help in understanding how weather and temperature could affect the pressure in footballs, according to a summary of the communication obtained by The New York Times.

 

[Jet Fan RI]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/s...ts-deflated-footballs.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

A law firm hired by the N.F.L. to investigate footballs used by the New England Patriots has formally asked the Columbia University physics department for help in understanding how weather and temperature could affect the pressure in footballs, according to a summary of the communication obtained by The New York Times.

All right! It looks like the science that needs to be done is getting done. Let's just hope they do it right, complete with independent peer review of the results.

 

[ucrenegade]

All right! It looks like the science that needs to be done is getting done. Let's just hope they do it right, complete with independent peer review of the results.

ay least they didn't hire a teacher from Harvard which I was afraid they might do.

 

[Jet Fan RI]

ay least they didn't hire a teacher from Harvard which I was afraid they might do.

Well, if it's done with independent peer review, which is the only way to do it right, any bias should be found out. And even a biased physicist, as I most certainly am, would not want his name associated with shoddy, incorrect work.