Janet Fraser<p>Why is spaghetti such a locus of speculation and study for physicists?</p><p>For one, it's simple – flour, water and heat, says Vishal Patil ...a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. The fact that a combination of so few components raises so many deep questions speaks to how physics underlies everything they see and do, Patil says.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/spaghetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spaghetti</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pasta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pasta</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bbcnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbcnews</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250319-spaghetti-science-what-pasta-reveals-about-the-universe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2025031</span><span class="invisible">9-spaghetti-science-what-pasta-reveals-about-the-universe</span></a></p>