Why does your cookie crumble?

What a great use of physics and engineering. We might now be able to have the "perfect" cookie. No more broken cookies at the bottom, nothing but whole, undamged cookies. A kids dream come true.

story.news.yahoo.com.../ap/20031003/ap_on_fe_st/why_a_cookie_crumbles

I don't know about you, but if I went through the time, trouble & expense to actually achieve a *Doctorate* degree, I think I'd be able to come up with something a bit more "earth-shaking" for an improvement in this world than to figure out a way to keep cookies from crumbling...

...Talk about having screwed up priorities about life, the universe & everything...

right.

the perfect cookie.

isnt it NICE that some people have so much time on their hands they can devote their time to this? Oh I am SO damn overjoyed. I will sleep well at night knowing the perfect cookie search is in good hands

I like soft cookies that crumble no sad physics man who spent time on this is going to take it away from me.

Don't concentrate on the cookie. Concentrate on what they found out about the cookie. The process has applications in every high tech industry.

BTW, how much food is wasted just from rejected cookies? I'll bet it is a lot! Millions of dollars worth.

Originally posted by copcorn
Don't concentrate on the cookie. Concentrate on what they found out about the cookie. The process has applications in every high tech industry.

Good point. I would think this would enable things to be kept around much longer than they have been. Old books and such that become frail and easily destroyed just by touching. If we knew the mechanisms that were behind it, we could create paper that did not have those characteristics and last forever.

Originally posted by crayon
Old books and such that become frail and easily destroyed just by touching.

Age...naturally-occuring scavenger insects...dehydration.
I don't need a Doctorate to tell me *that*.


Seriously though, I can see where it would have use in other applications...So why doesn't he *develop his ideas* on those applications that would most benefit from his new techniques? Instead of wasting it on cookies?

When CAT scans were being developed, they tested it on ancient mummies...Why doesn't he test his technique on steel-works at a foundry?

this will put those damn keebler elves on the streets