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Huntard
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Message 27 of 61 (666304)
06-25-2012 5:13 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by Dogmafood
06-25-2012 12:35 AM


Dogmafood writes:
This may seem like an off shoot but why are there no big leaps in this progression of 1 mile times? Are we at the end of the progression? When will we be at the end?
I don't know when we will be at the end, but there are simple physical limitations to the current human body that prohibit certain things from being done. For instance, it is impossible for the mile to be run in under 2 minutes (yes, extreme, I know), with the current human physique. No matter how hard you train, and how perfect your genes are, no one will ever, ever, ever run the mile in under 2 minutes. It would have to take significant enhancing technologies (be they genetic or purely technical) for this to be possible. However, small incremental improvements of the world record will continue to happen. For how long, is hard to say.

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Huntard
Member (Idle past 2294 days)
Posts: 2870
From: Limburg, The Netherlands
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Message 33 of 61 (666498)
06-28-2012 3:37 AM
Reply to: Message 32 by Dogmafood
06-27-2012 9:02 PM


Hello Dogmafood,
Dogmafood writes:
You see how you offered 2 potential solutions to something you just said was impossible. That is the start of those solutions coming into existence.
But if we use those solutions, we are no longer talking about the world record as it is currently measured. They are considered cheating. You see, if someone were to use one of these:
They'd already be able to run the mile much faster than the current world record. I'm sure people have already done so. Yet, we don't see those times mentioned as "the world record" because it doesn't adhere to the rules we have set for that "world record". Likewise with my solutions. If you were to use one of them and run the mile in under two minutes, it wouldn't be recognized as the "world record". So, the only way the world record will be run in under two minutes is to change the rules for the world record, not my two solultions. And if we change those rules, then really, what's the point of the world record anyway, anything's possible then.

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