The Ball is Quicker than the Eye
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Major League Baseball is back, and so is the 100-mph fastball. How is a batter able to hit a ball traveling faster than the eye’s ability to track it? The answer lies with the retina’s ability to signal the brain to anticipate the future, or predictive motion encoding.
The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/capribex on 2025-01-21 14:58:29.

Original Title: TIL that in Major League Baseball the ball is pitched so fast that the eye cannot track it. However, the brain is able to calculate its trajectory via specialized cells, making it possible for the batter to hit it.