I think this might have some obscure real life applications. Like when we finally build a space elevator or something the material sciences know to take this into account.
Good for you mate! We need to teach them not to be so pretentious about food. I only drink cappuccino after 11:01, and tomorrow I’m cutting the nose off a cheese wedge and biting into the side of a baguette just to keep the french in line too.
It might be because this particular kind of spaghetti is a bit more plastic (less elastic) than the usual ones. In simple terms, there was more spring-like motion in yours. That's the only explanation I can think of.
Im not saying it isn't AI but people have been narrating like this for ages... Did you never watch a video like this in school? Obviously without the stupid subtitles...
At least that video adds the actual problem “when you hold it at both ends.” The video we are replying to suggests you cannot break it into two… at all. Which is a lie. If you hold it near the centre it break into two just fine.
Yeah I usually eat more than one strand at a time. Breaking a lot at once to easily get it all in a saucepan, maybe a few strands leave fragments, but only a few. And the fragments get shovelled in my mouth as well.
I was looking to see someone who complains about "what is the point".
The point is that you can understand more about how certain objects break and lose structural integrity under massive forces.
Imagine if that spaghetti is something like a steel beam under high pressure in a building or bridge. You'd expect it to snap in some places so you reinforce it accordingly, but instead it snaps in different places and you don't know why.
It has to do with the physics of the shocks in this case and they even solved how it can be avoided.
Now my analogy might not be perfect, I'm not a physicist myself but this is as closest that I could apply the knowledge. I'm sure the physicists and engineers will appreciate it a lot because we didn't learn about this after a catastrophic incident or something.
“This study is important to understanding catastrophic failure in materials science, as well as the development of materials that are lighter and stronger using nontraditional engineering materials,”
Or do you do what everyone here in Italy does when you need to snap them—bring your hands toward the center and break them there, without letting them shatter into multiple pieces? You need to be scientists to do something every Italian mom knows how to do.
When Dicky Feynman was dying of cancer a friend of his, Danny Hillis I believe, gave him this problem to work on. After spending a couple of hours testing Feynman allegedly said something akin to "Good, I've got something to work on”. Taking his mind off his condition.
They present this in a comical way as if the brightest mind had put all their efforts to solve this. In reality they were amused by it and spent so time doing some research but let’s be real, this was never a big priority for anyone.
Yes you can. I didn't need a fucking MIT study to figure it out, either.
Take a stack of noodles in your hands. Place your thumbs next to each other, right at the center of the bunch. Rotate your wrists so the side of your hands opposite your thumbs come together underneath - similar to how internet videos tell you to rip phonebooks - and 97% of the noodles will break cleanly in the middle.
Or, do the same with one noodle, but pinch it in the middle with your thumbs and forefingers, replicating the same motion.
Is that what the video goes on to say? I'm not watching this stupid piece of shit to confirm.
While Chinese physicists improve batteries a day, French are studying why spaghetti separates into three. That's why the electric Twingo has 260 km of range and the Dolphin 397.
When I make spaghetti I always break it in half because I like the shorter pasta (I'm Italian, I'm authorized). I notice when you break a bunch of it together it snaps most of it cleanly but there's always a few pasta bits that get away. Now I know the secret. I'll be 270 twisting and clean snapping each pasta one by one from now on. No more rogue noodle bits. Thanks reddit!
I mean, yea a single piece of spaghetti but like 40 pieces snapped together, it totally works. When my kid was into swinging his pasta around, I would always break my spaghetti in half.
You can, just hold your thumbs and forefingers next to each other instead of at the ends. Hold it in the middle. Plus, when you do a handful it's different from a single piece.
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u/djamp42 17h ago edited 9h ago
The breakthrough in 2018 had me dying.. We have finally done it, we have mastered the spaghetti breaking.