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Originally posted by Deejax:
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Anyone know other, let's say, intriguing research studies?
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There is a guy, Werner Gruber, at the Vienna University Physics department who actually is a specialist in reasearch of artifical neural networks (my brother was visiting one of his courses and considered writing his disseration about that).
Yet he spent a lot of his (government funded) research time with
a.) The physics of paper planes: testing multiple models in a wind tunnel and under extreme circumstances calculating their aerodynamics with - yip you guessed right - supercomputers.
b.) The physics of cooking: calculating the exact amount of time for a steak to grill or an egg to boil. During that he proofed - and is particularly proud of it - that a 3-minute egg does not take three minutes but the duration depends on the size of the egg - duh!
I once saw him in a science magazine on TV and he was telling the old Russian rocket/teabag joke - honestly and with an awkward lack of humor. It was then when I realized that this guy was completely deranged.