so oneday Feynman is fuckin around in the lab after hours and cooking dinner in their limited kitchen. They have like a hotplot and a pot so they basically just make spaghetti. The pot is too small for spaghetti so Feynman goes to break the dry noodles in half so they fit...
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and kinda on-the-spot realizes he doesn't know any math that can account for this so he writes it off as a mystery. couple years later some other scientists working with slow motion cameras figure it out. Here's a summary of the finding.https://www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/snapping-spaghetti …
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I love this story about Feynman because it shows the attitude of absolute curiosity he viewed the world with. The smallest little things that he would notice would become inspiration for new questions and investigations.
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