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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......."
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......."