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."
This post was deleted for the following reason: Double. -- restless_nomad
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
posted by xigxag at 7:18 PM on August 21, 2018
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