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Why Spaghetti Never Breaks in Two: The Physics of Pasta Explained
Le Temps publishes on July 20, 2026, under journalist Denis Delbecq, an article on the physics of pasta. At the heart of the subject lies the phenomenon whereby spaghetti—long pasta—never breaks into exactly two pieces when snapped. The article invokes figures from physics and computing: Richard Feynman, physicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Danny Hillis, who aimed to build a computer with one million chips to create artificial intelligence.