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In 2005, scientists confirmed that dry spaghetti noodles never break cleanly in half. Instead they tend to split into three or more pieces. If you’ve ever cooked spaghetti you’re probably familiar with having little bits explode all over the kitchen. But it turns out that there is a way to break spaghetti cleanly in half. Famous physicist Richard Feynman once spent a night with a friend snapping pasta to figure out what was happening. He never solved it, but it inspired French researchers to try, which earned them a 2006 igNobel prize<\/a>. The secret? Twist the noodles hard like you’re wringing out a washcloth.\u00a0To understand why, they used a high speed camera that recorded the shattering pasta at a million frames per second. The twist prevented the two bent strands flexing back quite as forcefully as an untwisted strand, and the untwisting motion released some of the stored energy in the spaghetti, further reducing the likelihood of a second fracture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3148,"featured_media":46627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[9251,858],"class_list":["post-46622","cool-stuff-found","type-cool-stuff-found","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-physics","tag-science"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow to Break Spaghetti in Half Like a Physicist - The Mac Observer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/break-spaghetti-physics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Break Spaghetti in Half Like a Physicist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 2005, scientists confirmed that dry spaghetti noodles never break cleanly in half. 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