• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I mean, imagine if friction worked like this. You’d push a heavy object … and it would move to the left (or maybe the right?) like it was on ice.

    FWIW I do have a Physics undergraduate degree. It doesn’t help in this case.

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      2 days ago

      Well, shit hahaha but yeah, that would be weird as hell. I bet it has something to do with how electrons get aligned, but… I don’t know much beyond electrons moving between their shells