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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson
For the Patriots to blame a change in temperature for 15% lower-pressures, requires balls to be inflated with 125-degree air.
If they find themselves unwilling to believe Neil deGrasse Tyson, then I am completely dumbfounded. He is, after all, one of the foremost experts in the world on such things, even though he did make a calculation error in this one by stating that the balls would have had to be inflated with 125-degree air in order to deflate like they did. He corrected this assertion to 'the balls would have to be filled with 9-degree air. Actually, it is a moot point because no air in and around that stadium -- with the possible exception of the sauna -- was that warm on that evening.
For the Patriots to blame a change in temperature for 15% lower-pressures, requires balls to be inflated with 125-degree air.
If they find themselves unwilling to believe Neil deGrasse Tyson, then I am completely dumbfounded. He is, after all, one of the foremost experts in the world on such things, even though he did make a calculation error in this one by stating that the balls would have had to be inflated with 125-degree air in order to deflate like they did. He corrected this assertion to 'the balls would have to be filled with 9-degree air. Actually, it is a moot point because no air in and around that stadium -- with the possible exception of the sauna -- was that warm on that evening.