Phone book super glue
Did you know that two phone books can adhere together as if cement were applied to each page?
This is what my children learned from Mythbusters’ September 10, 2008 episode, “Phone Book Friction”. If you interweave the pages of two phone books, they are impossible to pull apart, except with well, a tank, maybe!
They kids tried it out yesterday. At dinner, they tediously weaved each page on top of the next, the next on top of that, etc. until they replicated the original shown on Mythbusters.
The result: they pulled and they tugged; they fell on the floor from trying so hard to get it apart. The phone books would not release themselves from each other!
Here’s a couple pictures of them in action!
Eventually, they did get the two sides of the phone book apart – but it was because the covers ripped off – NOT because the pages slipped apart!
