Did the weather have anything to do with those balls deflating in New England during the AFC championship game? It’s unlikely, very unlikely. Bill Nye explains why with science, but not without putting the hyped controversy into perspective first. Take it away Bill.
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Maybe someone should take all the hot air out of Bill Nye.
Professors of planetary science at MIT; mechanical engineering at Boston University; physics at Boston College; and applied mathematics, physics, and biology at Harvard find Belichick’s explanation plausible.
And “HeadSmart Labs, a Pittsburgh research company working on preventing head injuries from sports, said that it conducted a study that found weather and field conditions alone could have lowered the pressure by as much as 1.95 psi.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/26/scientists-agree-that-football-will-lose-air-pressure-when-moved-cooler-place/2KfFPHn9dARXXCwMgBMSkO/story.html#
So who are you going to trust, Nye, a longtime resident of Seattle or HeadSmart Labs in Pittsburgh?
http://www.headsmartlabs.com/#in-the-news