A World Without Friction
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A World Without Friction (603 Words)Although friction may seem like a minor issue, its absence would chance life as we know it. There would be many negative effects of this like not being able to gain traction on any surface and your ipods earplugs always falling out. Also, there would be many positive effects, such as eliminating the need for coolant in engines and lubricant in machines. Moreover, the absence of friction would be both bad and good.
Without friction, many obvious things which we take for granted would not function the way we like. Shoelaces would untie themselves, zippers would always unzip (unless they were upside-down), nails, screws, nuts and bolts would work themselves loose, and driving as we know ...
... whatever moving vehicles that were invented in this frictionless world would not have to contend with drag and air resistance. An interesting change that would come about is that all metals would become superconductors (Krim). Superconductivity is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials generally at very low temperatures, characterized by exactly zero electrical resistance (Superconductor). Since friction creates heat, there would be no heat so the very low temperatures would be present. Also, no friction means there would be zero electrical resistance (Krim). Since there are many applications of superconductivity, this would be beneficial.
Overall, the absence of friction would cause many changes: some good, and some bad. On the whole, however, life would probably be
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