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A model explains how track cyclists seem to start from rest with speed already on the clock
Some track cyclists look as though they begin a race already moving, in apparent violation of physics. A modelling study in Royal Society Open Science offers an explanation of the illusion, rather than a demonstration that any rule was broken.
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