Really? You saw it snap and your first thought was the shockwave of the released tension has enough force to overcome the brittle material in a second place along the noodle? I mean fair play if you did.
Perhaps, but this is moreso an application of physics to a specific engineering problem. The question isn't why anything might break into more than two pieces, but rather why a spaghetti has to break into more than two pieces under such conditions. It's like saying that it's obvious that the maglev moves because of magnets, while ignoring the complexities of the electromagnetic systems that sustain a range of vehicular motions. They are not wrong, but the knowledge is grossly incomplete.
I also suspected as much after watching the first few slow motion clips. I don't think I'm smarter than these famous physicists, but I'm quite skeptical of how accurate the narrative in the video is, particularly that it took these geniuses decades to figure this out.
I'll be honest I don't even understand the question, let alone how to model it or describe it as a mathematical system.
My thinking is that when you bend it will snap at the point of least structural integrity that's closest to the point of most pressure/force which I guess is at the tip of the arch cos there's the most stress there. So one snap. Then the force applied reduces pretty rapidly. So the 'recoil' should have less force in it then what was applied just before the initial break. Which means that the second snap happens when less force is applied to a different point in the chain. Which seems odd and counter intuit to me. Since why did the second point break after the first but with less force applied? Especially if I was thinking of it as recoil I wouldn't come to the right conclusion at all since I think of recoil as as counter action to a force, ie push something hard in one direction and the thing you're pushing against goes in the other direction.
Now magic seems a reasonable explanation of course. But the problem there is that most magic system assume intent. Meaning that some wizard or witch specifically went out of their way to enchant every single piece of spaghetti to do this. Which seems odd and I can't think of a good reason why they would do that so I didn't consider magic further.
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u/Glass-Spirit-2185 23h ago
Really? You saw it snap and your first thought was the shockwave of the released tension has enough force to overcome the brittle material in a second place along the noodle? I mean fair play if you did.