Spaghetti science?

Recently my videos disappeared from Facebook and I was terribly angry. But more than that, I was sadly disappointed having lost a really important comparison to something and something else by the laws of physics. 

It originated with a post on Facebook by the Daily Wire which had one of its correspondents admitting that he had disbelieved in God because in college it made him feel more intelligent. He said it in less direct language, something like, "I thought atheism made you smarter." He admits he was wrong.

 I made several practice videos, all gone now, some for 45 minutes or more on the subject, and in one of them I made a connection to the laws of physics at our hands every day, which makes us ready to see possibilities and wondrous things without even noticing and beliefs. This discovery I was proud of, it was well stated and now it was lost!

Today while reading an article about the physics of spaghetti,  which is worth a read HERE, I sort of made my own discovery again.

In my weak memory, glimpses of the idea came back. It was when I read that Richard Feynman was fascinated by the breaking of a piece of spaghetti, how it broke in three places unless twisted, that I read this: 

"In 2018, a team of MIT scientists figured out how to stifle the shockwave – delicately twist the spaghetti strand before snapping it. Their method required lab equipment, but it reliably produced a perfect pair of fragments. Their work provided a new and deeper understanding of brittle rods that goes beyond spaghetti; the phenomenon of three-way fracturing is well-known to pole vaulters, for example."

The discovery had me identify the ideas foundation, because my mother, who I know to be very intelligent, was the first woman to win pole vaulting in competition. The basis of my idea being that a profound understanding of our environment reveals its secrets to us, and the idea that you must believe or disbelieve in something to be intelligent is silly and proposterous in itself. 

One of the more beautiful things about life is how some parts of it, physics and mechanics espescially, are intuitive. I as a believer who used to think the opposite, that believers are smarter than unbelievers, am inspired to believe that the mysteries of nature and yes, even of God, are apparent to those who open their eyes and see.

More on the intuitive mind later.