Colin Burgess

When I boil pasta I put the spaghetti into the pot long side down, holding it in my hand, then lower it into the water and release. It falls into a pleasing spiral around the pot, which I then tend as the base softens.

Has anyone studied the physics of which direction your spaghetti falls when you let it go into the pot?

And does it fall the other way in the southern hemisphere?!!

#physics #ImportantQuestions

Mar 6 at 12:41amWeb
Show threadZeborahMar 6
@colinburgess It almost certainly depends on how you're holding and letting go of the sphaghetti. Water going down a drain has been shown to be affected far more by any currents in the water or imperfections of the basin than the Coriolis effect which is too weak at that scale to be very relevant. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-somebody-finally-sett/
Does water flowing down a drain spin in different directions depending on which hemisphere you're in?

Theoretical physics may not be powerful enough to rule over every individual eddy of water

Scientific American
Show threadzkarjMar 6
@colinburgess @aligorith the direction my spaghetti falls? Down. Always down. 😂