{"id":9059,"date":"2011-06-25T05:41:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T10:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2011-06-25T05:41:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T10:41:34","slug":"passing-forward-ever-forward-until-we-run-out-of-bounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9059","title":{"rendered":"Passing Forward, Ever Forward, Until We Run Out of Bounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/its-simple-matter-of-physics.html\">&#8220;It&#8217;s A Simple Matter Of Physics!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]t appears that people are puzzling on how a person who is running forward, then makes a pass backward, can result in a ball that is still moving &#8220;forward&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story is in reference to rugby but this is an issue in gridiron football as well.  A runner laterals the ball, and there is a question of whether it was a forward pass.  A debate ensues, and it&#8217;s really a matter of whose reference frame is to be used:  the runner&#8217;s or the ground&#8217;s.  I&#8217;d like to cite the NFL rules on this, but I can&#8217;t find them online \u2014 the NFL.com site has a &#8220;Digest of Rules&#8221; but I don&#8217;t want some pre-chewed interpretation.  I&#8217;d like to see the actual wording to see if they define what a forward pass is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s A Simple Matter Of Physics!&#8221; [I]t appears that people are puzzling on how a person who is running forward, then makes a pass backward, can result in a ball that is still moving &#8220;forward&#8221;. The story is in reference &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9059\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}