Friction – The Force That Wears the World Down

Podcast: Talking Science · Stavros kinnas

Opublikowano: 2026-10-04

Friction is so ordinary that it's easy to overlook - it's the reason your shoes grip the footpath and your car can stop at a red light - but it's also one of the biggest sources of wasted energy in the modern world, and stranger, at the microscopic level, than it first appears. This episode gets into what friction actually is and why it doesn't always behave the way intuition suggests. You'll come away understanding the difference between static and kinetic friction, why a smoother surface doesn't always mean less friction, how lubrication actually works, why friction...