{"id":226135,"date":"2025-11-29T04:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-universal-law-predicts-how-most-objects-shatter-from-dropped-bottles-to-exploding-bubbles"},"modified":"2025-11-29T04:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:25:32","slug":"new-universal-law-predicts-how-most-objects-shatter-from-dropped-bottles-to-exploding-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-universal-law-predicts-how-most-objects-shatter-from-dropped-bottles-to-exploding-bubbles","title":{"rendered":"New universal law predicts how most objects shatter, from dropped bottles to exploding bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-universal-law-predicts-how-most-objects-shatter-from-dropped-bottles-to-exploding-bubbles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you\u2019re annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into such a huge variety of sizes? Now, Emmanuel Villermaux at Aix-Marseille University in France and the University Institute of France has come up with a simple, elegant law for how objects shatter, whether they are brittle solids, liquid drops, or exploding bubbles.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long suspected that there was something universal about fragmentation. If you count how many fragments fall into each size range and make a graph of that distribution, it would have the same shape regardless of the object that shattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you\u2019re annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into such a huge variety of sizes? Now, Emmanuel Villermaux at Aix-Marseille University in France and the University Institute of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}