Put the spaghetti down already, Feynman!
August 21, 2018 7:09 PM   Subscribe

Richard Feynman will sleep well tonight—you can snap a rod of spaghetti neatly in two. "Linguini is different because it's more like a ribbon," Dunkel says. "The way the model is constructed it applies to perfectly cylindrical rods. Although spaghetti isn't perfect, the theory captures its fracture behavior pretty well."
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posted by not_on_display at 7:09 PM on August 21, 2018


Also see: https://www.metafilter.com/176056/Spaghetti-Solutions-the-science-of-breaking-spaghetti-in-3-and-2-pieces
posted by xigxag at 7:18 PM on August 21, 2018


Double.
posted by zamboni at 7:32 PM on August 21, 2018


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