This is something I have been thinking about since the Olympics... at what point will it not be possible for human beings to swim or run any faster. There has to be a point where the human body just can't go any faster, no matter how much you train, what kind of things you put into your body (legal or not), etc.
I mean it isn't possible to swim a 400 IM, for example, in 2 seconds (at least I don't think it ever will be) so where does it end? And when will that happen?
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None-the-less, "IF" we want to use timing systems that discern times that differ by as little as 0.001, then...
I think this is the first non-universally shared assumption.
As to whether you can construct an environment that is sufficiently controlled as to make a difference of one or two millimeters non-random, consider water currents, if the average speed of the water in two lanes differs by more than 1mm per 20s (0.05mm/s) then one swimmer will have a 1mm advantage over the other. I doubt that it is practical to control the water currents in a 50m pool so as to eliminate such an advantage.
None-the-less, "IF" we want to use timing systems that discern times that differ by as little as 0.001, then...
I think this is the first non-universally shared assumption.
As to whether you can construct an environment that is sufficiently controlled as to make a difference of one or two millimeters non-random, consider water currents, if the average speed of the water in two lanes differs by more than 1mm per 20s (0.05mm/s) then one swimmer will have a 1mm advantage over the other. I doubt that it is practical to control the water currents in a 50m pool so as to eliminate such an advantage.
