Apr 152012
 

Now here is a way to use physics more cleverly than Sheldon Cooper to avoid a costly ticket for a moving violation: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162.

The brief, two-sentence abstract reads: A way to fight your traffic tickets. The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the paper is dated April 1. But the story, it appears, is real nonetheless.

 Posted by at 8:43 am