Welcome dear freind🌅🌅

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Thank you Satyam

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Yes another example is Justin Schmidt an entomologist who won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2015 for creating the “Schmidt Sting Pain Index”. He allowed himself to be stung by 100’s of insects, ants, bees, wasps, etc., and he ranked them. Some of the insects he got stung by are really horrible and dangerous. However, his research is valuable and is cited in thousands of places, but it was still sort of crazy and it has entertainment value. He sacrificed himself for science.

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Yes, I gathered that the IG Nobel Prize was for that reason. It makes sense to honour something interesting but which does not fit into the traditional recognition framework. It allows for progress in a different way.

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Thank you so much for your kind words Debby. They are certainly mysterious objects.

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Maybe, I did not read the book or saw the movie. I know that Kip Thorne a theoretical physicist provided the math for the visual effects in the movie Interstellar and helped them get the science right. When they visited Miller’s planet, the one that is close to a black hole there is a loud clock ticking in the background. It seems like every tick is a second. The movie does not say what it is, but each tick is not a second but 0.7 seconds, which corresponded to one day on Earth. You are right. You can make many horror stories out of black holes. The Ig Nobel Prize in Astrophysics awarded to tele evangelist Jack Van Impe was not to insult him but because his idea was interesting even though it was not real research.

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