The Ig Nobel Prize is actually a very interesting award. The purpose of its establishment is to select research that "makes you laugh at first glance and then thought-provoking". It may seem funny at first glance, but the scientific and technological content contained in it is definitely not low, such as

The 2015 Ig Nobel Chemist winner is Callum Ormond of the University of Western Australia. His award-winning work was misrepresented as how to chemically cook eggs, but it was actually about denaturing proteins.

Research.

When scientists face these results, they often laugh heartily and then fall into deep thought, while the unscrupulous media only laugh at them. Of course, if you ask them to see these results, they will not understand them!

This award was founded by the scientific humor magazine "Impossible Research Record" and is awarded every year at the Sanders Theater of Harvard University one week before the Nobel Prize ceremony. Not only does this award have no bonus, but it also needs to be borne by the winner.

Travel expenses.

The only time it awarded a prize was in 2013. At that time, the organizer gave a huge prize of 10 trillion, but the prize awarded at that time was in Zimbabwe dollars, which was only equivalent to 24 yuan, which may be enough for the winner to buy a hamburger.

Although there is no prize money and they have to pay for their own air tickets, most of the winners will still happily go to participate, because although the awards are funny, many of the award judges are real Nobel Prize winners, and it is also important to be recognized by them.

This is no small achievement; of course there are exceptions. For example, the U.S. Air Force's Wright Laboratory tried to develop a "******" that can make enemy soldiers fall in love with each other and lose their will to fight. But the U.S. Air Force

But no one was willing to come to receive the award, and the organizers criticized him as being conservative and backward and lacking in humor.

Let’s first take a look at how this award is selected. It does not require nomination by a dedicated person like the Nobel Prize. Anyone can make a nomination by paper mail or email to mrobable. Well, if your supervisor does

If you come up with interesting research, you can also send an email to this email address.

Every year they receive around 9,000 nominations, which are then pulled from the street by former Ig Nobel laureates, actual Nobel laureates, science writers, sports stars, public figures, and the day the winner is decided.

A passer-by will judge and decide the final winner.

There are also some great names among previous winners. For example, in 2000, Andre Heim of the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands used magnetic levitation technology to overcome gravity. He suspended a frog in mid-air and deduced the use of a similar method.

He won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for being able to float against gravity; ten years later he won the real Nobel Prize in Physics for his outstanding research on graphene materials.

By the way, some Chinese scientists have also won this award. "Seeing Jesus Christ in Toast: A Neurological and Behavioral Study of Parallel Visions of the Human Face" won the 10-year Neuromedicine Award.

This award encourages humans to use extraordinary imagination and creativity. Use scientific methods to conduct research that is laughable at first and then thought-provoking. The more profound significance is to encourage research on a variety of interesting things.

Arouse the general public's interest and love for science.

This is also a way to cultivate scientific literacy. With the development of science and technology, the requirements for ordinary people to understand the frontiers of science are getting higher and higher! However, people's lives are closely related to all kinds of high-level scientific knowledge. For example, genetic modification

, such as p, nuclear power plants, etc., people panic because they don’t understand it, and the government is of no use to a lot of high-level professional terms that everyone can’t read or understand!

This is not a solution to the problem. You cannot make an ordinary person reach the level of a PhD in biology, a professor of chemistry and an expert in nuclear radiation through a few articles; the correct way is not to make everyone an expert, but to make everyone a

A layman with scientific literacy can talk about logic and evidence, allow others to finish their words, and be able to clearly express their own questions, etc.

In this regard, the situation in China is not good, and many media have played a role in fueling the flames intentionally or unintentionally. They have used their own right to speak, wantonly trampled on the academic dignity of experts in other fields, intercepted part of the remarks out of context and then threw them away.

An expert is called a beast in the past, but the news audience does not think deeply after reading the news that seems ridiculous at first glance, and subconsciously belittles the level of those experts. From now on, they will start to feel dissatisfied with all experts.

A sense of trust.

Therefore, people often quote the classics on the Internet to kill and attack high-tech products such as nuclear power plants, and then go to Shenma for weird products such as anti-gravitational wave radiation suits.

Please remember that experts are always more reliable than the media. If you have to choose between them to believe, then you would rather believe in the experts than in the media; of course, provided that those experts do not distort the facts because of stock market speculation.

The reason why Lu Qiujian thought so much in an instant was because he had expected that he would encounter similar problems after his plan was implemented. For example, the previous attacks on him by the "North China News" proved this;

Alas, there is still a long way to go to popularize science! I have done some popularization in mathematics before. So, do you want to do some science popularization in physics next?

This is not without its benefits. Just look at Hawking. He may not be the best physicist, but he is definitely the most widely known physicist in the world. He can even be said to be the most well-known scientist. The reason is that besides him

In addition to being physically disabled and mentally strong, the contributions of several best-selling popular science works such as "The Universe in a Nutshell" and "A Brief History of Time" are indelible.

Well, the dark matter experiment will be completed within this year. After the experiment is completed, maybe next year you can relax a little and prepare for this in addition to preparing your graduation thesis! Since the disintegration of the Red Empire, the United States has no competition pressure, and human exploration of space

I started to stand still, which was very detrimental to my plan! I hope that by then my popular science works can slightly awaken mankind's desire for space!

Returning to Munich from Geneva, he took a taxi and entered the University of Munich. In the building of the Department of Physics, he happened to meet Professor Theodor Hensch. Professor Hensch still greeted him warmly, which made Lu Qiujian lose a little.

Quite embarrassing.

After showing up a few times in the laboratory, chatting with Professor Schuft several times, and going to the observatory to visit Professor Dietrich, Lu Qiujian was free again. So do you want to go to Bayern to see it? In the new season

It seems like it’s about to start? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!