[js1138]

Our clothes dryer does that....it's caused by the machine ingesting one sock out of each pair.

Conservation of matter and energy, you know. That sock is converted into pure electrostatic spin. Not to mention lint.

[longshadow]

That sock is converted into pure electrostatic spin. Not to mention lint.

That harkens back to a discussion a few years back in which I hypothesized the existence of a gyro-rotational Black Hole inside of clothes dryers, that swallowed stray socks, and led via a worm-hole to the Planet of Lint...... I'm still waiting to hear from the Nobel Committee on when I can expect my nomination to come thru....

[Oberon]

That sock is converted into pure electrostatic spin.

Is there a law of conservation of socks? In other words, when a sock is converted into electrostatic spin in your dryer, does another dryer somewhere in the world have to house the conversion of spin back into a sock, in order to preserve equilibrium?