Posted ByJames Hagherty on April 04, 2002 at 15:22:14:
In Reply to: Re: Watching for the early reveal revisited posted byBill Helfer on April 04, 2002 at 12:08:56:
: Loosely based on the relativistic work of Einstein, the Relative Speed school first of all posited a Platonic "Optimal Priming Speed" (or OPS.) Similar to temporal physics' "Planck Constant", the OPS represents a "perfect priming speed" in that it is the fastest possible prime. The OPS number is a dynamic variable, and has never been absolutely fixed (though many, many theoretical treatises have placed it to the fifth decimal, no two treatises agree.)
Bill, I am intrigued by this OPS line of reasoning.
Am I correct in assuming that the limits for OPS would be the following?
- time it takes photons to bounce from opponent's throw reveal to player's retina (roughly a distance of 2-3 cubits)
- time required for signal to be processed by retina/brain
- theoretical time to reach a conclusion and inititiate reaction response
- time for signal to travel from brain to throwing hand digits.
- theoretical fastest possible digit muscular response time.
Sometimes I feel like RPS is like driving a truck as fast as possible toward a brick wall, with the object of touching the breaks at exactly the right point so your front bumper only lightly taps the wall.
James