When you played billiards during the early days of plastic, you took your life into your hands. Under the right circumstances, your bank shot could cause a ball to explode. Billiards played an ...

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There was a time when taking a perfect shot in a game of billiards could cause the ball to explode. That’s because the balls were made of celluloid, an early plastic that was, unfortunately, ...

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Jacksonville will host the Women's World 9-Ball Championship from December 16-21, 2025. The tournament is part of a four-year agreement with the Predator World Pro Billiard Series. 64 top-ranked women ...

Figure 1: Non-Hermitian exciton-polariton Sinai billiard and its spectrum. Figure 2: Crossing and anti-crossing for two near-degenerate modes. Figure 3: Eigenvalues of a two-level non-Hermitian model ...