<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>I was trying to visualize it for awhile too and I kept coming back to the image of a rubber band. Imagine stretching a rubber band over a door knob. As the rb is stretched the material "moves toward" the point where the most pressure is being applied. In the case of the rubber band that would be the door knob. In the case of the bowstring it would be the idler wheel...unless I am missing something here.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
I'm still trying to see that, but my mind isn't cooperating.
I vizualize it this way. Take a 100" string and mark a spot 30" from one end. Stretch the string one inch. This inch of stretch should be evenly distributed along the full length of the string. This would mean 7/10 of the inch is now added to the point above the nock and 3/10 added to the point below the nock. Now you have an even greater disproportionate amount of string above the nock. This means the nock is 4/10 of an inch closer to the short end, then it was before, or below the original nocking point. Does that make any sense?