[Leica] EYE BLINK TIME?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> OK Gentlemen here is the official international ruling which generally
> applies to the super high end events. Read on:
> 
>>> In track and field sprints, the sport's governing body, the IAAF, has a
>>> rule that if the athlete moves within 0.10 seconds after the gun has 
>>> fired
>>> the athlete has false started. [2] This figure is based on tests that 
>>> show
>>> the human brain cannot hear and process the information from the start
>>> sound in under 0.10 seconds.[3] This rule is only applied at high-level
>>> meets where fully automated motion sensor devices are built into the
>>> starting blocks that are tied via computer with the starter's gun. In the
>>> vast majority of lower-level meets, false starts are determined visually
>>> by the officials.<<<<<<<<<
> 
> And like I said, " I've never seen nor heard of this before."  But her you
> have it!
> 
> ted


I'm guessing there is not supposed to be a perception of simultaneous gun
going off and runners going off.
Its the gun goes off THEN they the runners go off. Together. A fraction of a
second later.

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Mark William Rabiner