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Unexpected Elements

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Is It Related to Thermodynamics?

Friction is like an extreme case of converting useful energy into heat because frictional situations are extremely far from equilibrium. In a vacuum electromagnetic fields persist and so if you've got a particle traveling through a vacuum or you have particles near one another in a vacuum and they're moving it's actually some quantum fundamental aspect of their interaction that gives rise to friction.

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