Emile comments on Physics question (slightly off-topic) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 12 December 2011 09:52:04AM 0 points [-]

Generic intuition pump: take much more extreme values: what happens if the ball is thrown at a million miles per hour? Maybe it bounces back at a million miles per hour, maybe the batter looks in dismay at the pile of splinters that used to be his bat ... so it depends of what your model of the batter is. The question as asked doesn't allow to answer that question, though you could probably estimate a reasonable model of a batter.