NY Times Coming Around To The Patriots Side!

The only semi-legitimate NY newspaper comes into the light:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/s....html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1

Upon Scientific Review.......Deflation Experiments Show Patriots May Have A Point After All

"......Other evidence is also turning the Patriots’ way. In a usually obscure profession that has received extraordinary attention during the controversy, some physicists now concede that they made a crucial error in their initial calculations, using an equation called the ideal gas law.
When that error is corrected, the amount of deflation predicted in moving from room temperature to a 50-degree field is roughly doubled. Healy, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, went further: He measured the pressure drop in 12 footballs when they were moved from a room at 75 degrees to one at 50 degrees (the approximate temperature on the field in the Colts game).
In the experiment, the deflation of the footballs was close to the larger, correctly calculated value. When Healy moistened the balls to mimic the rainy weather that day, the pressure dropped even further, close to the deflation of 2 pounds per square inch that the N.F.L. is believed to have found......."

Not a fan of the NY times, but hey, even a blind squirrel...

Significant!

I have been mentioning the effect of moisture on leather* for a couple of days now - it is nice to FINALLY see an actual scientific mention of it.

* It causes it to expand, which lowers the air pressure inside the enclosed volume.

You will not find this story in the Indy Times... Bob Kravitz head would explode.

"When a gauge indicates that the ball contains 12.5 p.s.i. — the minimum allowed by the N.F.L. — the actual pressure is more than twice that amount because the surrounding pressure of the atmosphere must be considered.This roughly doubles how much a dip in temperature can lower the pressure."

It's pretty sad that a physics professor would initially get this wrong. Again, the key to proving tampering is whether the Colts balls reacted the same way. As I understand it, only the initial report from Mort indicated that the Colts balls were also tested.

Ironic that the NY Times may have helped sabotage the Jets (or only former) employees plan.

Whether you agree with their editorials or not, the NY Times is actually one of the most respected newspapers in the country. Not surprised that they are actually talking about real facts here. On the contrary, the Post and Daily News are just a gossip rags