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Spaghetti science: What pasta reveals about the universe


When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties.

The great mid-century American physicist Richard Feynman helped unlock the riddles of quantum mechanics, explaining how the elementary particles that make up atoms interact with one another. Spaghetti science shows that no matter how deep physicists probe the big and the small, the answers can still fall short of explaining phenomena we see every day"This is actually a very interesting problem," says Daniel Maria Busiello, co-author on the cacio study. In the name of academic integrity, they cited a YouTube video wherein the Michelin-star Roman chef Luciano Monosilio suggests the same tweak for a foolproof recipe – a dash of corn starch.

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