Thank you, Student100, for preventing me from wasting more time on this homework-help-only forum. By the way, you seem to completely misunderstand the idea I was trying to get across.
Take two very cold pieces of ice. If you put them near each other, won't each pair of water molecules opposite...
"Everything sticks together" was a joke!
Jeez you guys. I was just wondering about it and thought there might be people here who knew more about it or wanted to talk about it.
All that I "came up with", wrongly assuming that speculating for the sake of discussion was allowed here, is that maybe...
Hey, man, I'm not trying to argue. I didn't say "anything". I meant "two objects" as in macroscopic objects.
Fine. Here's experimental evidence of my "proposition": http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/468/2145/2829
It's a thought experiment. Consider two conducting plates that have unequal, but both positive, charges. If you hold them close enough together, won't they induce an electric dipole in each other that will actually cause them to attract each other, even though they are both positively charged...
Take two objects and put them close together, but not touching.
Induction will cause some opposite charges to move across the gap from one another, and away from each other in an alternating fashion.
Make the gap r small enough and since the electrostatic force is inversely proportional to r...