Scientists at MIT successfully crafted a machine to break spaghetti into two

We can apply research results to many things, but we have not found anything specific.

If you've ever cooked spaghetti, or at least held a spaghetti "stick" to try it out, you probably know how "noodles" will react. Noodles will crumble into small pieces and fly wildly, when you bend the noodles beyond its tolerance limit.

The way it crumbled out caught the attention of scientists. Physicist Richard Feynman noticed it but sadly, he did not live long enough to know the end of the pasta stick when not turned into yarn. The scientific report on noodles was published in Physical Review Letters in 2005, 17 years after Feynman's death.

A stick of noodles is twisted at both ends by a similar force, it will curl until it breaks.

In the scientific report above, the French scientists showed that when a stick of wheat is twisted at both ends by a similar force, it will curl until it breaks. However, this method breaks down in many ways.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT wonder if it is possible to break the noodles so that it breaks into two pieces, without many variables in the result as shown above?

They really did. Please introduce the machine to break spaghetti , created with the main purpose of breaking the noodles in half neatly. It may not make it easier for you to break noodles in the kitchen (you can follow him), but it will help scientists apply research results to breaking noodles into other areas.

Machine for breaking spaghetti.

"It will be interesting to apply what research is to controlling the breakage of two- and three-dimensional materials , " says MIT applied mathematician Jörn Dunkel.

Two students, Ronald Heisser and Vishal Patil, are the two who proposed to study this issue. Heisser hypothesized that twisting is the factor that affects the breakage of noodles, initially trying to twist the noodles by hand to see how the result is. This method of testing was very limited, so he set up a device that could break the noodles with the most accurate force possible.

The result of the device has allowed Patil to build a mathematical diagram to break a perfect yoke. Young researchers discovered that the twist of 270 degrees, at 3 millimeters per second, would break the noodles neatly. Every kind of thin or thick noodle produces similar results.

The twist of the noodles will reduce the effect of reflecting when the noodles break, reducing the strength when fear of the noodles burst.

This is because twisting the noodles will reduce the effect of reflecting when the noodles break, reducing the strength when fear of noodles breaks out (the reason why the noodles break into pieces). When broken, the noodles will rotate in the opposite direction but initially twisted. The twisting back releases energy, and because the wave of twisting goes faster than the wave of bending and breaking, it reduces the amount of force acting on the parts of the noodles.

The research team also found that the mathematical model we built could predict how much of the noodles would break, not just creating two pieces of noodles.

Research results have been published in the PNAS scientific journal.