When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into ...

Universal law derived by French physicist predicts fragment sizes using entropy & probability.A dropped plate, broken spaghetti and a smashed drinking glass all seem to follow the same law of physics ...

Fragmentation, the way objects break into pieces, has long intrigued scientists. Researchers have observed that broken objects tend to produce fragments in a wide range of sizes, and the distribution ...

A dropped plate, a smashed sugar cube and a broken drinking glass all seem to follow the same law of physics when it comes to how many fragments of a given size they will shatter into. For several ...