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two pieces
When one takes a light stick or a piece of uncooked spaghetti andholds it near the ends and flexes it it sometimes does not break into
but into three. You end up with one piece in each hand and a shortmiddle
section which flies off as a projectile.Feynman's
In the most recent of the NOVA episodes that cover Feynman, the
founder of Thinking Machines Corp. (whose name I forget) illustrates
undying curiousity about nature with exactly that problem. The two ofdescribes.
them were making a spaghetti dinner, and observed just what Jim
They spent the rest of the evening making models and testing them.One of my students once noticed a burned section on a panel board where a
However, he doesn't say what they concluded!