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Einstein's Hair

DavidStack

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Although Albert Einstein's mess of hair was most likely due to the fact that he rarely slept well because of the equations constantly rattling through his brain and that he really didn't care what he looked like since he was too busy making history, electricity also plays into effect.

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Due to the likely rolling around that Einstein did at night, his hair felt a lot of friction from his pillow case and the sheets on the bed. This frictional force led to the passing of electrons from the sheets to his hair, and since like charges repel each other, the electron build up in his hair led to his hairs repelling each other and standing up on end. And with a known charge of electrons, the repelling force between his strands of hair could actually be calculated with the equation F = kqq/r^2. Someone needed to get that man a comb!

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