2023-12-12 01:27 UTC
The results were the most incredible agreement between theory and data I've ever seen in over a decade of being a physicist. I think I gasped when I saw this plot. Without any fitting, our simple theory *very accurately* predicted the unassembled area of all these puzzles.
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@mbonsma@mastodon.social 2023-12-12 01:28
We were surprised that the unassembled area didn't depend on the number of puzzle pieces. The intuition is this: if you have a small number of large pieces, the gaps between pieces are big, but this is multiplied by a small total number of pieces, and vice versa for small pieces.
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@atlauren@mastodon.social 2023-12-12 14:58
@mbonsma@mastodon.social attn @caseyliss@mastodon.social to the thread https://mastodon.social/@mbonsma/111564845145935604
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@Outinthehills@mastodon.social 2023-12-15 08:02
@mbonsma@mastodon.social that's impressive, definitely worthy of an Ig Nobel prize 👍