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August 30, 2005
Science news
CAMBRIDGE, MA--The same MIT physicists that split the smithereen in 2000 now claim to have successfully split the crouton. Dr Jonathan Eng, leader of the MIT team, said yesterday "We were at lunch and I wondered what would happen if you cover a crouton with dressing and wait a bit. Turns out you can then slice it without it crumbling. Of course, nobody wanted to eat the thing after it had been soaked in vinaigrette and hacked about by me, but if the $10mn grant application is approved we can automate the process in a cleanroom environment over the next 5 years and get maybe half a kilo of split croutons per week." The results, recently not published in Physical Review X, have no immediate practical applications, nor are they expected to stimulate research in similar fields, because there aren't any.
Posted by daen at August 30, 2005 11:51 AM