[1067] in Humor
HUMOR NEWS: Toast - It's True
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Sep 19 09:48:09 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:41:01 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 21:08:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
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Birmingham, England:
Now, at last, science confirms what we have always known: Toast really
does land butter-side down.
Robert Matthews, a visiting research fellow at Aston University, has
proved it.
In the July issue of the European Journal of Physics, under the title
"Tumbling Toast, Murphy's Law and the Fundamental Constants," he
demonstrates that when a slice of toast slides off a plate, it tips and
spins at a uniform rate.
And that rate, and the average kitchen table's height, virtually guarantee
it will land on its face.
Or as Matthews puts it: "The fate of the toast, whether it lands butter
side up or down, boils down to the size of a ratio, and that ratio is the
ratio of the size of the toast to the height of the table."
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