When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

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 ...