A scientific study has found it’s impossible to break apart an Oreo so that the filling distributes evenly on both halves.
An article from Vice lays out exactly how we now know this fact, detailing the groundbreaking work of MIT mechanical engineering PhD candidate and Oreologist Crystal Owens. Owens, driven by a desire to know if it’s only human error standing in the way of a perfect Oreo split, led a team of researchers in a study determined to uncover the possibility of the Platonic half-Oreo.
Yesterday, the Physics Of Fluids journal published her findings in an article titled “On Oreology, The Fracture And Flow Of ‘Milk’s Favorite Cookie®.” In it, we see the (properly reviewed) findings of a study that involved using a device called a rheometer, which “measures torque and viscosity of various substances”—including Oreos.
Even with high-tech equipment used in controlled experiments there is no way to achieve a perfect Oreo split.
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