00:00Let's improve your attention span and learn something weird.
00:02Stay with me while I explain why things break in the most annoying way possible.
00:05You know when you crush a sugar cube or drop a vase or a bubble pops?
00:08These things break into a bunch of different sized pieces.
00:11And what's weird is that the sizes of these pieces are kind of predictable.
00:14Like, no matter what you break, you always get a few big chunks,
00:17even more medium-sized ones, and a ton of tiny fragments.
00:20Scientists noticed this and were like, okay, why is the mess always shaped like this?
00:24And turns out there's an actual math equation for it.
00:26Because when something breaks, it follows the principle of maximal randomness,
00:29where the most likely outcome is the messiest one possible,
00:32the one that creates the most disorder.
00:34But not like infinite disorder, there's still basic physical rules,
00:37like the fragments all have mass so they can't overlap or just completely disappear.
00:41And when you combine those rules with maximal randomness,
00:43you get a single equation to predict the distribution of fragment sizes.
00:47And what I love is that it works on everything.
00:49Solids, liquids, even gas bubbles.
00:51It's the same pattern every time.
00:53So the next time that something shatters and you're super annoyed just staring at it,
00:56just know that physics predicted that exact level of annoyance.
00:59Also, congrats to you and your attention span for making it to the end.
01:01So,
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