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Danger
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Hi, all;
An interesting question was posed this morning by the science correspondent on Canada AM. Apparently, it's also in New Scientist magazine. He claims that it's unsolved, and I figured there's no better place than PF to go when searching for engineering solutions. I'm putting it in GE because I really don't know whether it's structural or materials or what.
The question is 'why can't you break a piece of dry spaghetti into only 2 pieces by holding the ends and bending it?' It always ends up in 3 or more segments.
Any thoughts?
An interesting question was posed this morning by the science correspondent on Canada AM. Apparently, it's also in New Scientist magazine. He claims that it's unsolved, and I figured there's no better place than PF to go when searching for engineering solutions. I'm putting it in GE because I really don't know whether it's structural or materials or what.
The question is 'why can't you break a piece of dry spaghetti into only 2 pieces by holding the ends and bending it?' It always ends up in 3 or more segments.
Any thoughts?