Most of what’s here on the Improbable Research site is real — we supply citations and links so you can see for yourself. Now our reality-based site has been honored as one of the “Top 25 Parody Blogs on the Planet.” This is perhaps symbolic of the times, in which the new President of the United […]
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Black holes and their possible wigs
It was somewhere around 1973 that the high-end theoretical physicist and H-bomb co-developer (the late) professor emeritus John Archibald Wheeler announced that “A black hole has no hair.” [in: Gravitation, Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne and John Archibald Wheeler] The concept, which was later consolidated as the ‘No-hair theorem’ has since been updated with […]
Things that sneak into the literature: Stuperspace
Odd bits of concoction occasionally find their way into otherwise somber research journals. Here’s one example: “Stuperspace,” V. Gates, Empty Kangaroo, M. Roachcock, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, vol. 15, nos. 1–2, February 1985, pp. 289–293. The abstract says: “We prove, once and for all, that people who don’t use superspace are really out of it. […]
More Scientists Going Gaga
By some reckoning, Lady Gaga invented herself so that scientists could parody her songs, which themselves are parodies. [Recall this and this, if you will.] Here’s the latest, from the Zheng lab. (Thanks to Ig Nobel Prize-winning fruit bat fellatio researcher Gareth Jones for bringing it to our attention)