A study conducted at MIT showed how to break a spaghetti in two pieces. The question, why spaghetti does not break into two, also interested the famous scientist Richard Feynman and the explanation was made in 2005. Mathematicians from MIT have shown how to break it in two pieces. The explanation may be important for the understanding of crack formation. You have just come back to home from work and decided to cook very delicious spaghetti. Then, you realized that the length of the spaghetti is longer than the optimum height that must be to perfectly fit your famous Sheffield-made fork. Therefore, you wanted to split it into only two pieces and bent it at both ends. But wait! Something went wrong. You did not manage to split it into two pieces and had more than two fragments. Regardless of how many try you attempt, it will end in the same result. This was one of the unresolved questions until 2005. Courtesy of Ronald Heisser and Vishal Patil/MIT The question, why do spaghetti not break in half  when it is bent, was explained by French scientists Basile Audoly and Sebastien of the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie*. The explanation caused … Continue reading How to break spaghetti into two pieces