Ig Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery in the field of urination – REGNUM

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Cambridge, USA, 18 September 2015, 10:51 – REGNUM On 25 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard winners in physics were representatives from the United States and Taiwan, they calculated the average duration of micturition in mammals.

The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesKak researchers found, the size of mammals has nothing to do with the time of urination. Animals average was written within 22 seconds. For example, elephants and cats – 20 seconds. Despite the fact that the bladder cat in 3600 times smaller than an elephant.

The study included 32 animals. Mammals, whose weight is less than 3 kg, regularly defecate for 20 seconds.

As stated by the winners of the Ig Nobel Prize for Physics, this is due to the simple laws of gravity.

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Ig Nobel Prize, or as it is called, or Ignobelevskaya Antinobelevskoy is a parody of the famous Nobel Prize. Awarded the prize “for his achievements which make laugh first, and then – think».

Ig Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1991. Originally, the award ceremony took place at MIT but now the ceremony held at Harvard University on the eve of the Nobel ceremony in Stockholm. Note that the prize winners of hand real Nobel Prize winners.

The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics received experts from Italy and Switzerland, Yuri Ivanenko, Alberto Minetti and the other for the discovery of the fact that some People would be able to run and held on the surface of the water in the pond – if the people themselves and the pond would be on the moon.