I don't want to steal the thread, but curiousity has really gotten me. I've done 1000x more reading on this site than questions I've asked. Most of my posts have been help from my knowledge of personal experience and/or what I have read.
However, as I've read amongst other threads and early posts in this thread everyone talks about splitting hops and such if you are using 2 pots for example. One individual posted on this thread that he puts all his hops in one pot and combines the two later. I thought "Oh boy he's in trouble." I was fully expecting responses to him saying, Oh no, you need to split those hops up. That's not right. You can't throw them all in one and not the other. Perhaps it slid under the radar in this case.
So I'm curious why exactly do you need to supposedly split the hops up evenly between the 2 boils? This isn't how I brew but I am just very curious. Could be a bad analogy, but if you're making chicken soup, and you have two pots of vegetables and broth, and you put all the chicken in one, and then combine the two pots, you still impart that chicken and it's flavor over your combined soup. No? Different with hops? Reality, or myth? Is there some hop chemical something-or-other thing I'm not understanding?