Dmitiri Krioukov, a physicist with the University of California, recently pleaded his way out of a fine for rolling through a stop sign using the power of mathematics. Krioukov worked up a four-page physics paper underscoring the differences between linear and angular motion to prove that he could have theoretically come to a complete stop and resumed traveling in the time it took another vehicle to pass between him and the citing officer.
The idea is that perception of speed can be altered depending on one’s viewpoint. Since the officer viewed Krioukov from the side and the physicist supposedly came to a complete stop very quickly before accelerating again just as fast, it appeared as if he never stopped at all. Or at least that was the notion. Whether or not the judge believed the professor didn’t matter so much as the fact that Krioukov managed to shed some doubt on the accusation. He was declared innocent and spared the $400 fine.
But the story doesn’t end there. The physicist left a flaw in his proof, and has invited everyone to see if they can figure it out. You can check out the full paper here.
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Traffic ticket lawyers have many tricks like this up their sleeves. Most of the time defendant is actually guilty but just by spending some money as lawyer's fee they save 1000000s on insurance.
I am not sure where does the morals of people disappears, morals of the people who beat the drum-of-moral day in, day out.
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errr… this paper was written on April 1[SUP]st[/SUP]. Are we sure it’s not an April Fool’s joke? I quickly read through the paper and thankfully it’s about the level of first year Physics so I could understand a little bit of it. To suggest that a car weighting around 2000 lbs with 100hp can be accelerated at 10m/s^2 is a little unrealistic. Our resident engineer @TLK can comment further :)
Ok I should get back to my real reading for the day.
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hmm
Brain updates the equation every time it sees the thing.
He says that officer measure velocity from c to point stop sign.
And it point S+p where c-s/100 = p
The velocity is almost liner not angular.
so if officer saw him at S+p to S-p then he is bull-****ing.
And vision blocked by an other car is major thing.
If the vision was blocked why the hell he had to write 4 pages doc ?
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its the nerdy physicist version of bullying, i guess monk. but at least for once, someone with a pure science major has managed to use his degree to save money (even if its mostly BS). _