A day after Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said he had put in a call to famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to prove that Russell Wilson’s fourth-quarter lateral was legit, Tyson responded via Twitter with happy news for Seattle.
Wrote Tyson: “FYI: The lateral that @DangeRussWilson threw to @MikeDavisRB in Sunday’s @Seahawks @Eagles game was a legit “Galilean Transformation”. In their reference frame, the ball went backwards. It’s not their fault they ran forward faster than the ball.”
The Encyclopedia Britannica defines a Galilean transformation as “a set of equations in classical physics that relate the space and time coordinates of two systems moving at a constant velocity relative to each other.