Thanks a lot for the photos. In my case, the paper is touching the floor, and is in a vertical position. It seems to me that it is much more likely for the paper to either make a non vertical angle with the floor, or completely leave it, than the present case. This made the thing more...
Borg, OmCheeto and Redbelly: Thanks for your comments. I thought it was a hair strand, but I also couldn't reproduce a wet hair getting sticked to a piece of paper; so your suggestion of spider web seems to be more likely. Still it puzzles me, though, that the spider web got all the way up to...
I'm just asking, in a place where physics experts are present, as to whether there is a reasonable physical explanation about something that puzzles me. The answer may or may not be interesting to the physicist. Being not an expert in physics, I couldn't have known it beforehand. And your...
Borek, as I said in my original post, I realized the piece of hair strand after I took the photos. But it's not a setup, and the hair strand might be totally unrelated to what's happening.
If I tried to fake you, I wouldn't post the photos in which the hair strand is visible, or I could have...
How on Earth can a piece of paper stand vertically on a single corner!?
Last week when I woke up, I saw something very interesting in my apartment. A piece of paper, torn from a newspaper previously, was standing still in an equilibrium on the floor, on a single corner. I was surprised and...