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The Mystery of Why It's Impossible to Pull Apart Interleaved Phone Books - Solved

posted by martyb on Thursday August 27 2015, @09:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the Did-you-let-Chuck-Norris-try? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

People, trucks and even military tanks have tried and failed the task of pulling apart two phone books lying face up with their pages interleaved, like a shuffled deck of cards. While physicists have long known that this must be due to enormous frictional forces, exactly how these forces are generated has been an enigma – until now.

A team of physicists from France and Canada has discovered that it is the layout of the books coupled with the act of pulling that is producing the force.

http://phys.org/news/2015-08-mystery-impossible-interleaved.html

[Source]: http://theconversation.com/solved-the-mystery-of-why-its-impossible-to-pull-apart-interleaved-phone-books-46697

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:11PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:11PM (#228755)

    Adam and Jamie try to separate two phone books by hand, fail, then ponder which of "two 18-wheelers" or "lots of C4" for separation would make the best slow-mo replay.
    Meanwhile the NSA is pretty certain that once linked, phone books stored in their database have no reasons to be ever separated...
    Microsoft feels like commenting about browser interleaved in OSes, but decides to give the lawyers a rest.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:26PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:26PM (#228759) Journal

    Too late. They already did that one . . . see Youtube for the low down on "Phone Book Friction". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOt-D_ee-JE/ [youtube.com]

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