Kind of neat article, describing theory of how spaghetti breaks.

[VirtualLarry]

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-mathematicians-age-old-spaghetti-mystery.html

 

[petrusbroder]

It is a wonderful article ... and has some interesting implications.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Thanks a lot Larry, now I'm cleaning up quite the mess in my kitchen, and probably will be doing this at parties now too, or at the carnival perhaps, pocketing wads of one dollar bills, as sucker after sucker comes forth to:

"Snap the spaghetti into only two pieces and win $100!" Step right up son, what are you going to do with your $100? You get 3 chances for only $5! Step right up! NEXT!

 

[crashtech]

I did manage to break about 1 in 5 noodles into two pieces without twisting, but mostly it worked. Very interesting!

 

[biodoc]

Excellent article. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Now that you have your kitchens cleaned up, try it with meatballs.

 

[crashtech]

I'm confident about breaking a meatball in half cleanly, let's see...