odd food question

[The Antipop]

ok, if you have a block of steak and cut it in two, you get invisable shavings right? say it measures 1' x 1' and you cut it in half, your pieces may only be 63/128" x 63/128" the rest gets so small you can't see it all

follow?


if so, you understand that the pieces are always getting smaller and "losing" some material as in you can't see it


is it possible to cut it up so much that the human eye cannot find a trace of it?

btw, Im not on drugs, Iv been wondering this for years. sad really

 

[grovest]

This is a very odd thread indeed.

Cutting steak usually involves slicing, with a sharp blade seperating the meat along the grain or severing it against the grain. I don't think you really lose meat in the process...

BUT

If you cut the meat with something like a saw (e.g., something that rips through material and has a kerf) you would generate some sawdust and the two parts would be a little smaller than half the size. Eventually you could cut it completely into sawdust.

[So, if you had a 1" piece of something and carefully sawed at it with a 1/16" wide blade, in as few as 16 slices the material would be utterly transformed]

 

[The Antipop]

see that was what I was thinking... but if you cut the shaving more and more... would it become beyond our naked sight?

 

[grovest]

Outdoors, on a breezy day, with a very thin saw blade, correct lighting and a lot of time? Probably possible.

 

[seanm]

see that was what I was thinking... but if you cut the shaving more and more... would it become beyond our naked sight?

Theoritically yes. But in practice you would not be able to hold the slice to cut it. Remember: In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren't.

 

[Josh Ryan]

Ok Emo Phillips, no more pudding.




anyone?

 

[hateater]

Well, could you find a knife that was small enough to cut it into small enough pieces? Would you use a laser?


Kind of reminds me of the Itchy and Scratchy where they ripped off Fantaisa.

 

[artistanbul]

man! cast disintigrate on it!

or not...

 

[Zon Bass]

Technically you can cut anything into pieces too small to see whether you lose some material in the process or not.

 

[dryheatbob]

Outdoors, on a breezy day, with a very thin saw blade, correct lighting and a lot of time? Probably possible.

May want to add a steady hand and no caffiene to that list. Those pieces get too small, next thing you know you're adding a finger or two to the whole mess and ya gotta start all over again.

It is possible to reduce a material to the point that it essentially doesn't exist, though that point depends on the material, how it's diluted and the criteria for determining when it is "gone".

I have no idea how I know this. Just another bit of data trapped in my head since college.

Bob

 

[freshmeat1989]

ok, if you have a block of steak and cut it in two, you get invisable shavings right? say it measures 1' x 1' and you cut it in half, your pieces may only be 63/128" x 63/128" the rest gets so small you can't see it all

follow?


if so, you understand that the pieces are always getting smaller and "losing" some material as in you can't see it


is it possible to cut it up so much that the human eye cannot find a trace of it?

btw, Im not on drugs, Iv been wondering this for years. sad really

I also have wondered this! Im not the only wierd kid on TB!

 

[The Antipop]

anyone want to try it?

 

[Stubb]

Why would you want to turn an expensive slice of meat like a steak into nothing?!

 

[Tym2cu_bass]

as the others have said yes, you can BUT, the knives' blade would have to get smaller as well, because once its small the blade would just be smashing it, so you would have to get a thinner and thinner and thinner blade... or:

you could cook up the steak, put some BBQ sauce on it and eat it