billiard ball
Noun
Meaning
ball used in playing billiards
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Later analysis by Thorne and Robert Forward showed that for certain initial trajectories of the billiard ball, there could actually be an infinite number of self-consistent solutions.
The "billiard ball" hypothesis, a product of Newtonian physics, argues that once the initial conditions of the universe have been established, the rest of the history of the universe follows inevitably.
The chicken would sit on items, such as a ringside bell, a man's bald head, a billiard ball, a football, a golf ball, and even a bomb, with various disastrous results.
Middle: the billiard ball emerges from the future, and delivers its past self a strike that averts the past ball from entering the time machine.
The last process imparts most of the neutron's energy to the proton, much like one billiard ball striking another.