Shoot-out

[AB Editor]

http://www.telegraph....n-his-shoot-outs.html

"Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr, who died in 1962 aged 77, first suggested the intentional act of drawing and shooting is slower to execute than the reactive response after being inspired by movie gunfights.

After many mock gunfights in university hallways with graduate students, Bohr concluded the villain always tries to draw his gun first, and so must consciously move his hands), while the hero always reacts and draws by reflex as soon as he sees the villain moving."

An argument for reaction over action?

All the best

Spare Ed

[yogi-bear]

Hi Ed

The baddies always seem to draw first................the proof is in the pudding..........look at this brilliant shoot out from"Tombstone"......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnFsrmsA94

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnFsrmsA94

ok corral

[bookbinder]

yogi-bear, you're right about the shoot-out being brilliant!

[rov1200]

Reaction times are very important. That is why you sometimes see car crashes where the driver in front has collided but the one following has greater reflexes and avoids the collision. Yet the first driver is able to put his brakes on sooner.