However, as our practical certainty of the laws of motion specific to billiard balls increases, the range of motion that the second ball takes decreases. It will go where we want it to go.

Billiards photo by Leo Hidalgo (CC BY 2.0).. British inventor Alan Parkes is credited with developing the fist human-made plastic, patented in 1862 and marketed under the name Parkesine.

There was an age of billiards, and it has been over for so long that most of us have no idea how huge billiards once was. For many decades, starting in the mid-19 th century, billiards was the one ...