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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
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The Mystery of Why It's Impossible to Pull Apart Interleaved Phone Books - Solved
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @03:44PM
I never said that what you said was subject to those concerns. I was just listing some alternatives that could provide similar privacy to your suggestion of using a book and listed some possible shortcomings in those suggestions as well.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday August 29 2015, @08:29AM
I suspect we may be running into a purely verbal disagreement coming from the use of the word "you".
In this case, as *I* read it, "you" is referring to *me*. This statement reads to me that you are accusing me of making assumptions; ones that I did not make at all. I gather (now) this was unintentional and that a choice of a different non-specific pronoun would have avoided the confusion.
If you had used the word "one" instead of the word "you" in your original comment [soylentnews.org], then we are in general agreement.
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