Gunslinger effect

Photo of Niels Bohr, an older man
Physicist Niels Bohr is credited with creating the theory.

The gunslinger effect, also sometimes called Bohr's law or the gunfighter's dilemma, is a psychophysical theory which says that an intentional or willed movement is slower than an automatic or reaction movement.[1] The concept is named after physicist Niels Bohr, who first deduced that the person who draws second in a gunfight will actually win the shoot-out.[2]

  1. ^ Casimir, Hendrik (1983). Haphazard Reality – Half a Century of Science. New York: Harper and Row. pp. 97–99. ISBN 978-0-06-015028-0.
  2. ^ Feilden, Tom (3 February 2010). "The gunfighter's dilemma". BBC. Retrieved 11 June 2022.