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The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday April 14, 2012 @03:06PM from the in-this-house-we-obey-the-laws-of-thermodynamics dept.

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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Re:Actually.. by Arancaytar · 2012-04-14 22:32 · Score: 0, Troll

We can be absolutely certain this scientist is not black!

Because a black scientist in the situation would have been shot by the officer long before it went to court.