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Yep forget trying to find the cure for cancer or developing an alternative to plastic, what we really need to do is find out if it's possible to break a piece of uncooked spaghetti into only 2 single pieces
When you study physics, you're bound to brush up against some of the universe's larger mysteries. What came before the Big Bang? What lies inside a black hole? Is it possible to break a stick of dry spaghetti into exactly two pieces?
Perhaps you've found yourself asking that last question in your own kitchen. Why is it that, when you try to snap a single piece of uncooked spaghetti in half, you almost always end up with three or more pieces of pasta clattering across your counter? It's a logic-defying phenomenon that has baffled chef and scholar alike for decades; even Nobel physics laureate Richard Feynman, who helped develop the atomic bomb during World War II, is said to have spent the better part of a night sitting in his kitchen, snapping spaghetti sticks and searching for an explanation. [The Mysterious Physics of 7 Everyday Things]
Yep forget trying to find the cure for cancer or developing an alternative to plastic, what we really need to do is find out if it's possible to break a piece of uncooked spaghetti into only 2 single pieces