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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 240809" data-attributes="member: 446">Here is a thought experiment that may bring some of the disagreement to the surface.  Take a playfield-sized piece of plywood, and raise one end to make a typical pinball six-degree angle.  Take a pinball, and dip it in paint, as we are going to want to view its trajectory.  Get someone else to put the ball at the top center of the plywood and let it go, and start rolling down the plywood.While the ball is about in the center of the plywood, move the bottom of the plywood about an inch to the right, in about 0.1 seconds (I'm trying to estimate an typical actual nudge here).  Then move it back to the left an inch, also in 0.1 seconds.  The amount of time taken should be enough so that the ball has not rolled off the plywood after both moves have been completed.The questions then are:- Is the painted ball path a straight line, or is it curved?  If it's curved, we have altered the ball's trajectory without knocking it into a physical object.- Would the moves have generated a slam tilt?  A warning?  I don't think so... if you think they would have, then halve the distance moved and try again.</blockquote>

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