I have a theoretical question. What do you think is the absolute fastest time possible for a human being in the 100 yard freestyle. One way I was looking at it was to start at 1.00 second and say, will anyone ever be able to swim it in 1.00 sec. No. Will anyone ever be able to swim it in 2.00 seconds. No...so on and so on. At what time do you stop and say, hmmm, maybe someday someone would be able to swim that fast.
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I think the ultimate limit for this and any other athletic events will come down to physiology. Perhaps a physicist could calculate how much force would be required to launch a swimmer off the blocks, the walls, and power their arms through the water to swim a 20 sec. 100 yd. free. Can the skeletal structure of the body take that? For example to cover a 25 yd. distance in 5 seconds, how much power would have to be generated just off the blocks? Can a human bone handle that? Or would we need titanium body parts? Would that swimmer have to be able to squat 1000 lbs to do that?
I think the ultimate limit for this and any other athletic events will come down to physiology. Perhaps a physicist could calculate how much force would be required to launch a swimmer off the blocks, the walls, and power their arms through the water to swim a 20 sec. 100 yd. free. Can the skeletal structure of the body take that? For example to cover a 25 yd. distance in 5 seconds, how much power would have to be generated just off the blocks? Can a human bone handle that? Or would we need titanium body parts? Would that swimmer have to be able to squat 1000 lbs to do that?
