This post may seem frivolous and unimportant and I have no desire to be trivial, but, rather to understand some of the odd behavior of materials around us. Some of the experiments that I do are complex and time consuming, and sometimes they end in dismal failure. But that is fine with me. I enter into most of my investigations with an open mind and I always learn something useful that will expand my knowledge base.
This simple demonstration took just an hour or so to do but has explained something that I have observed for a long time but failed to try to understand before. I have seen that in all tubular pasta that the tubes always line up vertically and behave in the same way every time that I have cooked this type of pasta. And, as I mentioned in the video, I have given the question some thought. I even tried to make it more complicated than it really is. But, when cooked in a glass beaker, the behavior is much less mysterious. The tubes that remain horizontal seem to be either stuck to the bottom, or, are trapped by the weight of the upper tubes.Check out the video and comment as you see fit to. Now, what happens when we add milk, with a lot of fat content, to hot coffee? Maybe I will try this on a really rainy day. This post is for fun. Enjoy the world around us...
This simple demonstration took just an hour or so to do but has explained something that I have observed for a long time but failed to try to understand before. I have seen that in all tubular pasta that the tubes always line up vertically and behave in the same way every time that I have cooked this type of pasta. And, as I mentioned in the video, I have given the question some thought. I even tried to make it more complicated than it really is. But, when cooked in a glass beaker, the behavior is much less mysterious. The tubes that remain horizontal seem to be either stuck to the bottom, or, are trapped by the weight of the upper tubes.Check out the video and comment as you see fit to. Now, what happens when we add milk, with a lot of fat content, to hot coffee? Maybe I will try this on a really rainy day. This post is for fun. Enjoy the world around us...
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