Well i have done some research as to why ice is slippery, and no scientists actually know. Lot's of theories have been taught but all have been mathematically or otherwise experimentally been dis-proven.
So i got to thinking, and one day i came up with a little 'theory' on friction or perhaps more properly worded, 'another way to explain friction'. My idea is that when you have two surfaces rubbing against each other, due to the surface imperfections on both surfaces, the atoms of one surface are being hit by the atoms of another surface. This causes them to be jostled around and they vibrate faster, essentially causing the objects to have more thermal energy and in turn they become warmer.
Now that part has already been explained and proven as far as i know, but here is where my idea about why ice is slippery comes in: because thermal energy is just the energy of the atoms in the object moving around, an object would have a resistance to becoming warmer due to the atoms not wanting to vibrate faster due to their inertia. This in turn makes it harder for kinetic energy to turn in to thermal energy. Small molecules such as those in ice should have a lower inertia, and thus less resistance to becoming warmer, and thus the kinetic energy has a less difficult time converting to thermal energy.
Now one issue you may see with this theory is that if kinetic energy had a hard time turning to thermal energy, it would just remain in the form of kinetic energy and thus an object with larger rather than smaller molecules would be more slippery. However, if that were to happen, let's say your shoe is one surface and there is another surface with large, high inertia molecules; the kinetic energy of your shoe sliding over the surface would have a very hard time converting to thermal energy, but your weight and inertia force the shoe to vibrate the molecules of the surface. Because the molecules are so large and have so much inertia, they really dont want to move faster, and thus it becomes harder to move your shoe. If you moved your shoe across ice, the small molecules wouldnt have as much inertia and thus it wouldnt be as hard for your shoe to move.
The whole thing is analogous to a situation where you could walk through two hallways. In both hallways, on the walls are connected large boards that can pivot like a door to let you through. One hallway has very heavy doors, and the other has very light doors. In the hallway with heavy doors, just because they are large and heavy doesnt mean that the kinetic energy of you walking through the hallway is not converted to the doors moving, it just means it's a lot harder. In the hallway with light doors, walking through is very easy. So, that is my rather long explanation as to why i believe ice is slippery!
So tell my what you think about my 'theory' or if you know something i dont about friction and ice and what not, tell me!
Also, just in case your are wondering, development on the B3 is still going, im not sure how but i 'accidentally' took a long break from development but that is a topic for the other thread, so leave a post there if ya want me to furtha infomationize you about the console's current state!
Dang, that must have been the longest post i have written! Oh well, it's good for the groovy conglomeration of neurons encased in your cranial bone matter!
