Watch This Basketball Take Flight Thanks To The Magic Of Science

Have you heard of the Magnus effect? If your friends aren’t talking about it yet, it’s probably going to be the talk at the water cooler tomorrow. That’s because a recent video of a basketball flying has gone viral, making everyone on the internet interested in exactly how a ball with some spin can turn a fall into a swerve.

If none of this makes sense, the video above will explain. And unlike the science you took in high school, this is easy to understand and actually pretty fun. Just make sure you’re careful if you want to try this yourself. If you hit someone in the head with a basketball you dropped from a great height, you can’t use “science!” as a legal defense. Just FYI.

And for anything else you may have missed on the web today…

(via i09)

×