{"id":12288,"date":"2012-08-31T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12288"},"modified":"2012-08-31T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:00:32","slug":"how-many-licks-does-it-really-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12288","title":{"rendered":"How Many Licks Does it Really Take?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physics and Physicists:  <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/sticky-physics-of-joy-on-dissolution-of.html\">&#8220;Sticky physics of joy: On the dissolution of spherical candies&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the paper&#8217;s abstract<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Assuming a constant mass-decrease per unit-surface and -time we provide a very simplistic model for the dissolution process of spherical candies. The aim is to investigate the quantitative behavior of the dissolution process throughout the act of eating the candy.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first commenter grabbed the &#8220;low-hanging fruit&#8221; response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blaise Pascal said&#8230;<br \/>\nIt appears that this is the right paper (or at least, the right researchers) to answer the important question in this field:<\/p>\n<p>How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?<\/p>\n<p>Previous published experimental trials yielded an answer of 3 (W. Owl, 1970), but I believe the experimental protocol was flawed. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No eror bars on that result, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics and Physicists: &#8220;Sticky physics of joy: On the dissolution of spherical candies&#8221; From the paper&#8217;s abstract Assuming a constant mass-decrease per unit-surface and -time we provide a very simplistic model for the dissolution process of spherical candies. The aim &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}