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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.
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Link to videos of the experiments http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/spaghetti/