An entertaining physics study

Almost everyone loves — and loves to chat about — an entertaining physics study. Here’s one published recently in the journal Physical Review Letters (in vol. 100, 202001, 2008), DOI 0.1103/PhysRevLett.100.202001. We lack the software to easily reproduce its title in the normal text of this blog entry. So here is an image of the title and the authors list:

Improbable Research