man we had to go way faster than I thought we would to get this answer but there it is I mean it's not vibration it's the curvature of the spaghetti as it straightens out think about it this way the entire spaghetti rod is under torque right because of this torque it bends in a curve and when a break occurs the side near the brake is now free from torque but there's still this counter torque built up in the rod so it starts to straighten itself out from left to right rotating up and straightening out along the way because the spaghetti on the left is already straightened out and the spaghetti on the right is still curved the point where they meet is now even more curved which causes the spaghetti tube in beyond the minimum failure radius this results in a fracture it's like one side doesn't get the message fast enough if the whole rod were to release at one time it'd be fine but it doesn't it breaks itself apart along the way every time you have a new brake the process starts all over again this physical phenomenon is called a cascading fracture until recently the math behind this phenomenon wasn't very well understood but I did find a really cool French research paper on the topic as well as a neat simulation created by some Norwegian petroleum engineers to my knowledge though the video that we just watched gives more insight into this physical phenomenon than anything else that's ever been done we just did it at a quarter of a million frames per second which is amazing so there you go the secret of snapping spaghetti is not just a party trick the next time you boil spaghetti be careful because you are about to explore the very edge of scientific knowledge so thank you very much for watching this episode of smarter every day if you would like to get a book that talks about all the things that richard fineman studied i recommend an audible book called surely you're joking mr. Feinman I am listening to it right now and it's really good if you would like to support smarter every day go to URL_TOKEN slash smarter and download surely you're joking mr. Feinman and you would support smarter every day and I would greatly appreciate that so thank you very much I'm destined to get smarter every day have a good one you ever had a Richard Fineman no I will he is he's a little different than Daddy but he's pretty smart awesome dude
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