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Professor Methuen has gone slightly mad and uses his considerable scientific and engineering gifts to pull pranks on his colleagues. When they try to stop him at his house, something unusual happens.
Every time he applied a horizontal component of force to a hand or knee, the hand or knee simply slid backward.
So, how does it work?
Clifford Simak was also fascinated by the idea of a frictionless surface; see the frictionless surface from his 1963 story Way Station. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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