Fasting-breaking research on breaking (and flying!) spaghetti

When thin brittle rods such as dry spaghetti pasta are bent beyond their limit curvature, they often break into more than two pieces, typically three or four. With the aim of understanding these multiple breakings, we study the dynamics of a bent rod that is suddenly released at one end. We find that the sudden relaxation of the curvature at this end leads to a burst of flexural waves, whose dynamics are described by a self-similar solution with no adjustable parameters. These flexural waves locally increase the curvature in the rod, and we argue that this counterintuitive mechanism is responsible for the fragmentation of brittle rods under bending. A simple experiment supporting the claim is presented.

But how can they exclude supernatural forces at work? This is just naturalism, rejecting out of hand a whole set of possible alternatives - empty, bankrupt posturing deliberately denying the Truth ™ of the FSM. Why? Because they’re scared of what that admission might do to their antipastaorial world view.

I fear for our children, exposed to this godless, amoral falsehood. If people start to think that spaghetti is under the influence of a ‘counterintuitive mechanism’ instead of the divine noodly appendage, they’ll be eating instant noodles and playing naughty bottom games. You know what Pat says about that.

I demand that Intelligent Fragmentation, which states clearly and undeniably that nothing may be known about anything, be taught. Two thousand years ago, someone got his fingers singed by a bowl of simmering ravioli - won’t someone stand up for him?

Kansas is ahead of the rest of the world in this, by Gluten. It’s time the rest of us stood up to the attack by the intelligent, educated people with their carbonara sauce and ‘simple experiments’.

R