As a math guy, this is something I've been pondering for a while. Is there a limit to how fast we can swim. For instance, I remember a discussion point a while back was that there was no physical way a human could run the 100m in less than 9 seconds, that the forces you would create within your body in order to run that fast would cause you muscles to tear and bones to shatter.
In swimming we're seeing a HUGE leap forward in technology as it pertains both to how we train and what we put on our bodies. For instance, how fast could Matt Biondi swum a 50 or 100 if he had access to the wealth of information we have now just 15 years later in regards to training, nutrition and suits.
Could he possibly 20 47 low in the 100 if he were in his 20's/early 30's right now?
And to my point, imagine the 50 free. How fast is "impossible"? We just say Bousquet take 1/4 second of the 50 free WR. What's the limit? You'd think at some point someone's going to set a WR that will never be broken.
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I (vaguely) remember Johnny Weissmuller when he broke the minute in the 100 LCM free being asked if records (his and/or others') would reach a point where they couldn't be bettered and his reply was (more or less), "Whatever one human can do, there'll come another human who can do it just a wee bit better........."
It could very well be that for a few years (decades?) FINA (and maybe other sports) will have to resort to using those 1/1000ths of a second that the (pad) timers record and that they're not using today..........:chug:
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I (vaguely) remember Johnny Weissmuller when he broke the minute in the 100 LCM free being asked if records (his and/or others') would reach a point where they couldn't be bettered and his reply was (more or less), "Whatever one human can do, there'll come another human who can do it just a wee bit better........."
It could very well be that for a few years (decades?) FINA (and maybe other sports) will have to resort to using those 1/1000ths of a second that the (pad) timers record and that they're not using today..........:chug:
