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How Spaghetti Stumped Physicists For a Century
How Spaghetti Stumped Physicists For a Century
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This is super weird. Take a spaghetti
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noodle, hold it the ends, and try to
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break it like this.
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Did you see that? It never breaks in two
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pieces. Let's roll the instant replay.
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It always breaks into three or more
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pieces. And if you don't believe me, you
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should try it for yourself.
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And it's not just noodles.
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>> Oh my word. Look at that. The pole
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snapped.
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>> Did you catch that? Look at it again.
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His pole snapped not just in half, but
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into three pieces. But why? I mean,
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what's happening here? Well, spaghetti
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is long and skinny and flexible until it
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reaches its breaking point. Uh, this
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pasta puzzle stumped some really smart
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people. Even Richard Fineman, who solved
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some of the toughest problems in quantum
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physics. His noodle couldn't figure out
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these noodles until 2005 when a pair of
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MIT scientists cracked it. Literally,
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they built a high-tech spaghetti snapper
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so they can control and measure the
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popping pasta. When a spaghetti noodle
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bends, the outer side is stretched in
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tension while the inner sized is
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squeezed and compression. Well, the
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first break always seems to happen near
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the middle where its curvature is the
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highest. But there's all this stored
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energy in that bent noodle. That energy
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has to go somewhere and get suddenly
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released as this rapid recoil. The
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scientists found that the two halves
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whip back in the opposite direction as
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they try to straighten. It sends a shock
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wave down each piece that warps it so
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sharply that they often break in one or
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more other spots, too. This is called a
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cascading failure. And that's why you
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almost never get just two pieces. These
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same scientists also figured out that
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you actually can get spaghetti to break
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into only two pieces if you twist it
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before you bend it. That way, when it
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snaps, that unwinding motion cancels out
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some of the wave motion and prevents the
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cascading failure. Now, a pole valter
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isn't going to care how many pieces
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their pole snaps into. I mean, two's
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already too many, but it's still pretty
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awesome that a noodle can unlock a
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mystery of physics. Follow me for more
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cool science videos.
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So weird.