Why you CANNOT break spaghetti in two pieces?

Scientists have found a way to snap a piece of dry spaghetti into two pieces. The long-time challenge has been to grab a single spaghetti stick and, holding it at both ends, bend it until it breaks. Smarter Every Day video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADD7QlQoFFI&t=324s Controlling fracture cascades through twisting and quenching: Ronald H. Heisser, Vishal P. Patil, Norbert Stoop, Emmanuel Villermaux, and Jörn Dunkel https://www.pnas.org/content/115/35/8665 How bent spaghetti break: B. Audoly, S. Neukirch http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/spaghetti/index.html #science #math #paradox #physics