French physicist discovered the universal law of destruction of objects

A French physicist has developed a universal law that predicts how objects break up into fragments, from broken glassware to bursting bubbles, offering new insights into a phenomenon that has long puzzled scientists. This was reported in the New Scientist magazine.

Emmanuel Villermo, a physicist from the University of Aix-Marseille and the University Institute of France, has derived a simple equation that explains why objects split into fragments of characteristic sizes, regardless of their material composition. The law works by combining two principles: "maximum randomness," which assumes that nature prefers the most chaotic outcome in the event of destruction, and the law of conservation, which limits the possible variations in the size of fragments.

The equation does not work in strictly regular processes, for example, when liquid is crushed into identical droplets, and in cases when fragments interact with each other during destruction. According to Ferenc Kuhn, a scientist from the University of Debrecen, the breadth of application of the formula is impressive, and it can be adjusted to meet additional conditions, for example, for plastic, where cracks sometimes "tighten".

The researchers noted that understanding fragmentation is of practical importance.: This can help optimize energy consumption when crushing ore in industry or prepare for rockfalls in the mountains, which have increased due to global warming. In the future, scientists intend to study not only the size of the fragments, but also their shape, as well as determine the minimum possible fragment size.

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