Peter Sagal

While the actual science is difficult to communicate to you lay people, suffice it to say that this is the first research project to ever make somebody say, hey, who put meatballs in the particle collider? Wait, this is in Germany, though? Well, the institute is based in Germany, but it was a collaboration of scientists from all over the world.

The physicist's pasta technique involves using heat to supersaturate starch into water, then entering a black hole, but leaving the Parmesan cheese behind on Earth so it ages while we remain young.

The physicist's pasta technique involves using heat to supersaturate starch into water, then entering a black hole, but leaving the Parmesan cheese behind on Earth so it ages while we remain young.

The physicist's pasta technique involves using heat to supersaturate starch into water, then entering a black hole, but leaving the Parmesan cheese behind on Earth so it ages while we remain young.

Okay. Well, you know. No, I'm glad this got done, because if there's one person I trust to make great Italian food, it is a German physicist. Right.

Okay. Well, you know. No, I'm glad this got done, because if there's one person I trust to make great Italian food, it is a German physicist. Right.

Okay. Well, you know. No, I'm glad this got done, because if there's one person I trust to make great Italian food, it is a German physicist. Right.

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Union, Kentucky. Now, I don't know where that is. What do you do there in Union, Kentucky?