Too improbable to be invented...

[muninnhuginn]

But actually in existence: the Research Institute for Out of Equilibrium Phenomena (Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre: we checked in case the transalation was suspect, but we were reading Nature at the time). Results just published solve the problem of what angle a skimmed stone should hit the water to maximise the number of bounces.