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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 9323523" data-attributes="member: 15538">Well, we're having a very strange conversation. The question was, what happens if you don't have friction? So my thinking was, what causes friction. Friction is the result of objects not being able to simply pass through each other. One of the consequences of that is that the energy that would normally be converted to something else when they collide is that they don't. So let's say objects can pass through each other. They are no longer held in place by the presence of other objects. So the only thing holding objects together would be molecular attraction. Again, this is a very silly thought experiment. But it seems like everything would just be these non-Newtonian fluids. Maybe it's a lack of imagination on my part, but I think you would just be a puddle. Perhaps instead we would all be these amazing clouds constantly transforming into different shapes, or maybe forces would be so different that things mimicked matter as we know it in more respects, but is still weird, but that's so weird I don't even know how to world build around that.I'm not wrong that friction is mostly caused by little things bumping into each other, right? So, I'm really stuck on the idea of a universe where, possibly at the visual level, a bunch of minerals could just rub together and their little irregularities... just passed straight each other without any collisions, without changing the energy of their motion into any other form.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 9323523, member: 15538"] Well, we're having a very strange conversation. The question was, what happens if you don't have friction? So my thinking was, what causes friction. Friction is the result of objects not being able to simply pass through each other. One of the consequences of that is that the energy that would normally be converted to something else when they collide is that they don't. So let's say objects can pass through each other. They are no longer held in place by the presence of other objects. So the only thing holding objects together would be molecular attraction. Again, this is a very silly thought experiment. But it seems like everything would just be these non-Newtonian fluids. Maybe it's a lack of imagination on my part, but I think you would just be a puddle. Perhaps instead we would all be these amazing clouds constantly transforming into different shapes, or maybe forces would be so different that things mimicked matter as we know it in more respects, but is still weird, but that's so weird I don't even know how to world build around that. I'm not wrong that friction is mostly caused by little things bumping into each other, right? So, I'm really stuck on the idea of a universe where, possibly at the visual level, a bunch of minerals could just rub together and their little irregularities... just passed straight each other without any collisions, without changing the energy of their motion into any other form. [/QUOTE]

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