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Monday, April 16, 2012

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Math + Physics + Fancy Language + Sneeze = Beating Traffic Ticket

It was science, and a sneeze, that helped Dmitri Krioukov persuade a judge that he had obeyed the sign.

April 16, 2012 Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist based at the University of California San Diego, used a four-page paper to make his case that physics could explain why an officer thought he didn't stop at an intersection. But a sneeze also played a key role.

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