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Published online 13 July 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070709-15
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It could only happen in the movies
Real science can't compete at the movies with bad science. But perhaps that's how it is meant to be.
"I'm arresting you for breaking the laws of physics," says the policeman to the levitating man, in a cartoon that speaks volumes about the curiously legalistic terminology that science sometimes adopts.
In this spirit, two physicists at the University of Central Florida in Orlando seem intent on making a citizen's arrest of all of Hollywood.
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