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by iofj 3878 days ago
It would give us one more point of serious divergence between our physics theories and the real world. What would that give us ? Good question.

Something between what the discovery of the bandgap in semiconductors got us and what finding out that the speed of sound in cheddar cheese is much more temperature dependent than in brie.

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I would like a source on that cheese article please.
They won the 2006 Ig Nobel in chemistry!

CHEMISTRY: Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon of the University of Valencia, Spain, and Carmen Rosselló of the University of Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, for their study "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature."

REFERENCE: "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature," Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito, José Bon, and Carmen Rosselló, Journal of Food Science, vol. 64, no. 6, 1999, pp. 1038-41.

WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: The winners delivered their acceptance speech via video recording.

Source:http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/