This is interesting, and it sounds like oriented water. The resilience may be in the vertical range, but there may be variablilty of friction in the horizontal domain, one that might be influenced with a broom (or electric charge?).
> -----Original Message----- > From: Harry Veeder [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 8:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT: Why Ice is Slippery > <snip> > > Personally, I am interested in this work because it bears on > the controversy over why a curling stone curls. The motion of > a curling stone has been simulated on a computer using > Newton's law's motion and some models of melting from > pressure and friction, but unless the ice actual melts > according to the models, the simulations demonstrate nothing. > > Here is another discussion the research which says a bit more > about the experiment itself. > http://www.felixonline.co.uk/articles/2301/The_science_of_ice_skating > Harry > >
