Parallel Plate Capacibug
By scuttling across the carpet, this novel creature passes current between its parallel plate capacitor body. This fascinating process enables the insect to accurately determine the net charge on the food it consumes. With even the slightest understanding of integers, it could have demonstrated the existence of the electron thousands of years before written history and supplanted Robert Millikan as the handsomest arthropod to win a Nobel prize.
discovered by Horrifying Planet • 10 years ago
