2006-08-23 23:15:52 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
the law of gravity
2006-08-23 23:17:28 · answer #1 · answered by Auntiem115 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is true that bread is more likely to land butter side down. This is because of the gravity of the earth and how big humans are. Because of the average height of human beings and the rate of acceleration due to gravity and the tendency of a flat object to spin when in free fall it is an unfortunate coincidence that bread has the time to complete half a revolution e.g 180 degree rotation - butter side down! - before it strikes the ground.
It might sound complicated but it is true (according to the documentary I saw about it). As an aside, if you lived on a different planet you may not suffer from this problem - but I wouldn't sell your house just yet!
2006-08-23 23:25:19 · answer #2 · answered by bearos3000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know the answer... The bread or toast is dropped from a height around 3 ft. It falls off the counter, your plate, or you are drunk making a sandwich and it falls out of your hands. One side falls first... causing a slight rotation. The distance between your hand and the floor only allows the bread to rotate 180degrees. Therefore, it falls on the butter side.
2006-08-23 23:25:37 · answer #3 · answered by The Voice of Reason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its because for it to land buttered side up it would need to turn 360 degrees (or in other words make one complete revolution) but the distance from a table or work surface in your home is not big enough for the bread to turn completely so it lands buttered side down!
2006-08-23 23:37:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The buttered side is the heavier side, thus making the buttered side the side that it lands on.
2006-08-23 23:24:26 · answer #5 · answered by couchP56 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
butter is heavier than bread.
also bread has pores in it which has air in it.
in the dropping movement, theres is a circulation of air insside the bread, which causes the heavier buttered side to face the earth - the gravitational pull.
2006-08-23 23:19:35 · answer #6 · answered by kummu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the sid ewhich has butthe ron is heavier than the other side, try this: if you drop anobject which is heavier on one side, the heavier bit will each the floor before the lightest side:take a sheet of paper and put some jame on one side, drop it on the floor and the jammed side will touch the floor not the other side. try try!!! you will see i am right!!
2006-08-23 23:19:52 · answer #7 · answered by Goldfish" 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the buttered side is heavier.
2006-08-23 23:18:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason when you throw the hammer the heavy side lands first, Gravity!
2006-08-23 23:27:42 · answer #9 · answered by Macka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when something that has uneven weight is dropped, it falls on the side that is the heaviest or most dense because that side side has more forces on it.
2006-08-23 23:28:23 · answer #10 · answered by I like skushies! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't, It just seems that way. A 'Sods Law' test was done on this a few years ago that was shown on television. It's all down to chance.
2006-08-23 23:27:17 · answer #11 · answered by Norman Bates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋