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Like attracts like?
Everything you thought you knew about electrostatics is probably wrong.
Make two metal spheres positively electrically charged, bring them close together, and what happens? They’ll repel one another, because like charges repel – right?
Wrong. According to physicist John Lekner at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, they will most probably attract one another, violating the intuitions of basic physics. The counterintuitive result was published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A1.
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What Why Alright let’s put that on the list of questions to ask my all-knowing physics teacher before my brain explodes
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Gotta love theoretical physics.
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this is why I hate physics. It doesn’t apply to the real world, I don’t care about the trajectory of a ball I throw, and...
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Aww maaaannn…
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It’s called “London Dispersion forces”. We’ve known about them in chemistry for like a century.
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