Incredible Rick! I will tell the fellow who sent it to me.
Cheers,
Peter

Rickard Parker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I just nominated this for an Ig Nobel Prize.
>Reply was: "Thanks! A worthy nominee."
>Real Nobel laureates give out the prizes.
>http://www.improbable.com/ig/
>
>
>On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:06:31 -0700, Peter Montgomery <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Subject: Cold case solved? Study probes riddle of sinking beer bubbles
>>
>>
>>Cold case solved? Study probes riddle of sinking beer bubbles
>>
>>May 24, 2012
>>Special to World Science  
>>
>>One rid­dle of hu­man ex­ist­ence has been a cold case for years—but we can
>fi­nally put this one away, ac­cord­ing to three sci­ent­ists. They claim to
>have solved the puz­zle of why bub­bles in dark beer sink rath­er than rise,
>as com­mon sense, and a cur­so­ry grasp of phys­ics, sug­gest they should.
>>
>>Their an­swer in a nut­shell: para­doxic­ally, bub­bles in dark beer fall
>be­cause they’re try­ing to go up. But in try­ing, they cre­ate cur­rents
>that en­a­ble some of them rise only at the ex­pense of oth­er, more clearly
>vis­i­ble ones, which in­stead drop. The shape of the glass, mean­while,
>plays a key role, said the in­ves­ti­ga­tors, who stud­ied per­haps the
>best-known brand of stout, Guin­ness.