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Hello, I'm Robin Enz.

And I'm Brian Cox and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage.

Quantum Physics has a rich and varied history

when it comes to its involvement with international cuisine,

including Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman's

lauded experiments with pastor.

And this is entirely true, by the way,

one evening, breaking a brittle piece of spaghetti.

He wondered why it broke into three pieces, rather than two.

And he immediately invited all of the finest brains

of Cornell's Physics Department

to bring around as much spaghetti as they could get.

And they spent the night breaking spaghetti

and applying equations to it.

And at the end of that evening,

they had come up with no answers whatsoever.

But they did have a very good bolognaise.

You know what?

Sometimes failure followed by bolognaise.

It's all right. It's okay.

Apart from that, the only other big physics meets food stories,

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