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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:14PM (#228756)

    You're missing the point! which is to make deceptively strong fences out of paper! Think of the Chinese Finger Trap in fence form.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:21PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:21PM (#228757) Journal
    You are missing the point [soylentnews.org]
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:26PM (#228760)

      Gretchen, stop trying to make (grin) happen.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:48PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:48PM (#228770) Journal

        Gretchen*, stop trying to make (grin) happen.

        I'm not. Actually, I'm pretty happy to make it my own signature, if I could figure out how to protect it as my own(... naaah. Doesn't worth the effort)

        Besides, there is an almost subliminal but serious point that I may wanted to make in my original reply [soylentnews.org]: people today are less sensitive to physical gathering, the freedom on speech moved quite a lot on the net. Which means if the people really care enough to gather, some flimsy phone books will stop them - just throw some gasoline over them then use an app to fire it up (grin)
        If they really want to stop them, they'll need to disrupt their phone/tablet communication (build their tablet locks instead of phonebook lock).
        S'rely**... if people really care, good luck with that [newscientist.com]

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        *, ** and don't call me Shirley either
        (grin)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @11:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @11:10PM (#228776)

      lol 'mr (grin)' failed to recognize 'mr !' — hoist by your own retard

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 27 2015, @11:54PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 27 2015, @11:54PM (#228788) Journal

        lol 'mr (grin)' failed to recognize 'mr !' — hoist by your own retard

        Subtle, indeed!

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