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mine fall sunny side uo mostly! (Im lucky I guess..) It doesn't, of course. There is some evidence that the act of buttering the toast creates a concave shape that actually tends to work the reverse, if the fall is long enough.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoM. E. Bacon, George Heald, and Matt James of the University of Maryland have posted an informative study into the physics of falling toast. The results of their find is that when bread was placed just barely too far over an edge (center of gravity less than 1 cm past the edge of a counter), falling from the height of 76 cm (a standard counter height), the bread would rotate between 90° and 270°, indicating a butter side down landing. Since a lot of buttered toast is likely going to be held in the hand when it falls, it would likely exhibit a similar behaviour. Ways to have the bread land buttered side up would include allowing it to overhang the edge of the counter further (center of mass 1 - 2.5 cm over the edge indicated a butter side up landing), or raising the height of the counter (or table) to 150 cm (roughly 4½ feet), allowing the bread to rotate twice as much, turning butter side down landings into butter side up landings. See the related links for the full study.
For those not scientifically inclined, consider the mental anguish involved in a butter side down landing versus a butter side up landing. A butter side down landing involves a film of grease to be removed from the floor, while a film of dirt winds up on the toast, necessitating the waste of the toast. However, a butter side up landing will normally only involve some dry bread crumbs on the floor, and the toast is often salvaged. Thus, butter side down landings, by virtue of a more traumatic experience, stay etched in the human mind longer, leading to a more pessimistic mindset when it comes to tumbling toast.
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∙ 14y agothe butter side is heavier so its allways goes down
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∙ 16y agoThis is a common myth. In fact the myth busters tested it and it was either or. It was inconclusive showing that results were equal.
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∙ 12y agobread always lands butter side up because the butter makes one side heavier so that is the side it lands on.
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∙ 15y agoSometimes, but it's an even probability as to which side the bread will fall.
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∙ 13y agoER i just think it's bad luck
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Does buttered toast always land on the side with the butter on it?
No, the odds are 50/50 that the toast will land with the buttered side up.
Why does toast fall butter side down?
It doesn't. Mythbusters tested it. It doesn't always
What does this quote mean-bread'll take butter on either side?
This quote means that either option presented is satisfying or acceptable, just like butter on both sides of a slice of bread. It suggests that sometimes there are multiple good choices available.
Because of torque and the height of most tables how is buttered toast most likely to land?
buttered side down
Does toast with jelly land jelly side down more often than not?
Yes, because the jelly makes the toast heavier on the top, which spins it round to face gravity (falling)
If superstitions were true then what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to a cats back and dropped it?
This isn't really a superstition. It is said that a cat always lands with his feet on the ground (not true, by the way), and it is said that when you drop a piece of buttered toast it always lands butter side down (not true either). So if you tied a piece of buttered toast butter side up to a cat, the cat would of course spin all the way down. It's a joke, not a superstition.
Why does toast fall on the jam side down?
That's Murphy's Law. Toast always falls on the jam side because that side's the heaviest!
How can you defy the laws of gravity?
There is a way to defy the laws of gravity. Start with two principles. Scientist and animals lovers agree that cats 99% will always land on their feet if dropped from a short distance. This is due to their lack of collarbones, and general larger mass towards their legs. It is also greatly accepted that buttered toast (on one side) will nearly always land butter side down. This again is due to the greater mass on the butter side. Therefore in theory: If you were to put a piece of buttered toast (not buttered side down) on the back of a cat, and drop the cat from a short distance. The cat should then levitate for eternity.
What would happen if you strapped a buttered piece of toast to a cat will the cat keep revolving in mid air because it wants to land on its feet and the toast wants to land butter side down?
The cat will land on its feet. Logically speaking, the toast is already anchored to the cat, and so it has no need or desire to land anyplace. It is a blessing that this keeps the cat from eternal mid-air revolutions no matter what side of the toast is facing the cat. If the buttered side is cat-side, then the toast's experience is that it has already fallen and has landed properly. Many of the laws of physics have this beautiful kind of symmetry. The "flip-side" is that if this symmetry were not present in the laws of buttered-toast physics, then we would have an infinite source of energy in the form of revolving cats. JonnyD Here:the cat and toast would spin creating a vaccuum in space sucking everything up and putting the earth in a void in space crating a black hole which would then take us off the map of the universe and all the other planets would laugh at us because they already knew what would happen.
Does toast always fall with the buttered side down?
yah
How come every time you drop a salted peanut it goes under the settee?
It's called Sod's Law or the Law of Cussedness. This law also applies to buttered toast. Every time you drop a slice of buttered toast it lands butter side down.
How a rocket can move through outer space where there is no matter for it to push on?
This is a very good question, however it's irrelevant: who gives a flyin f*ck about how rockets work?? They just f*ckin do! A better question is, if toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what would happen if you strapped buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it?
