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French scientists discover law that predicts how most objects shatter
(interestingengineering.com)
Game physics about to level up!
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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Intriguing topic, though.
Read the article, but my question was not answered:
Is spaghetti amongst these 'most objects'?
Or will spaghetti breaking remain a mystery?
Spaghetti will break into randomly sized smaller spaghetti like objects
So it's spaghetti all the way down?
Not sure if broken spaghetti still counts as spaghetti
Idk, I think it does. Spaghetti isn't a length, it's a width and shape, by my understanding anyway...I'm no Pasta-ologist and am almost certainly wrong.
Don't use tiktok so I'll just assume that this is someone snapping spaghetti in half and then Italy rioting.
I don’t use TikTok either but yea pretty much, you can view the one video from a browser
Fair enough, still not really willing to give them my traffic
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Why do you think it is a mystery?
Apparently my information was outdated. But for decades scientists were unable to explain why spaghetti usually breaks into more parts than two, when bended.
Here, have something to read: link to news.mit.edu article
If it's only most objects is it really a law? I'm just a dumb guy, but that seems contradictory. My understanding is that gravity is a "Law" because it interacts, in one way or another, with EVERYTHING
In physics, law mostly just means a clear formula which always applies when you're within some specific parameters (Newton's laws when below relativistic speeds)
There are no laws in science. Some call things law for whatever reasons, but they are not. We have theories, the highest thing there is, which explain everything we can observe usually to a level of accuracy that is extremely good.