why does toast always land butter side down?

Question

mmm toast

Answer 1

Murphy's Law

Answer 2

Toast lands butter side up because of the strength of the electromagnetic force. This dictates that we are of order 6 foot tall and so tables are 3 foot.

We cannot grow much larger than around 6 - 7 feet, or the forces needed to hold us together will be insufficient (muscles strengths etc). These depend on the strength of the electromagnetic force.

Thus toast etc makes only one rotation as it drops. But I can't tell you why the force is what it is: it is a fundamental question like the origin of mass.

Answer 3

This was debunked on the last "Mythbusters" show I watched, which was last week. If toast falls off a table, there is probably a tendency for it to do a half flip, but toast dropped randomly lands butter side up about as often as it lands butter side down.

Answer 4

In fact it has been proved that if you put butter to the toast there is more chance for the toast to land butter side up because when you greased the toast you probably made a little curve in the bread and aerodynamically blah blah it is more likely to fall butter side up...Try it!

Answer 5

I can't explain it but it does raise this question: If a buttered toast always lands butter side down, and a cat always on its feet - what would happen if you tie a toast butter side up on a cat's back and throw it in the air ..... will the cat spin around for all eternity?

Answer 6

Some people propose tying a piece of toast butter side up to the back of a cat.the experiment will produce an anti-gravity effect. They propose that as the cat falls towards the ground, it will slow down and start to rotate, eventually reaching a steady state of hovering a short distance from the ground while rotating at high speed as both the buttered side of the toast and the cat’s feet attempt to land on the ground.[

Answer 7

i dont understand... how do you guys make toasts????

i just put it in a toaster and set the degree and after about a minute it pops out..

im really confused right now! what this question is and why would the toast jump around and make a backflip and end up on the floor with butterside down????

can someone help!

Answer 8

Because when you butter the toast, you're pushing the metal into the bread and moulding it into a curve henceforth creating a bread parachute. Also, the butter weighs it down.

Answer 9

There is a way round this. Drop the toast on the floor then butter it down there.

Answer 10

It is known as Murphy's law! Seriously though it is a 50% chance each time it happens. It has been scientifically proven that it is just as likely to land butter side up.

Answer 11

my toast never lands. it never makes it past my mouth. so the butter side is sort of all over the place when it finally stops moving. You people are butterfingers...dropping your toast all the time...geez...come on...careful with that toast.