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April 15, 2012 04:05 am

The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws


New submitter HeLLFiRe1151 sends this quote from Physics Central:"Here's a practical application for your physics education: using math to successfully beat a traffic ticket in court. Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist based at the University of California San Diego, did just that to avoid paying a fee for (purportedly) running a stop sign. Krioukov not only proved his innocence, but he also posted a paper detailing his argument online (PDF) on the arXiv server."

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