or verbally bashing their wives from a distance that the wives can hear them, but far enough away for them to think that their husbands didn't intend for the wives to hear.

you're right (a little bit). slowing down the deceleration of the skull would obviously slow the impact of your brain into the inside of your skull. take your same analogy, and imagine a bowling ball in your passenger seat when you hit a brick wall at 40 MPH and a bowling ball on your passenger seat when you hit a…