[Phys-L] Fwd: How Spaghetti breaks extracts from PRL authors

[Dan MacIsaac <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

An interesting bit of Feynman lore and subsequent video / theoretical
analysis...

Dan MacIsaac, Associate Professor of Physics, SUNY-Buffalo State College
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Begin forwarded message:

> Oh, and I imagine you may have come across it but
> in case not, this was in the Economist recently.
>
> How spaghetti breaks
> Aug 11th 2005
>
> IT WAS a problem that baffled the master himself. Richard Feynman-
> maverick physics genius, Nobel laureate and father of modern
> quantum theory-could not work out why, when a strand of dried
> spaghetti is snapped, it almost never breaks in half but instead
> fragments into three or more pieces. At dinner with Daniel Hillis,
> an old friend and computer scientist, the two became obsessed with
> this and spent hours theorising and experimenting.
> ...
> Link to videos of the experiments http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/spaghetti/
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