Where Does This Stuff Come From????

So, today was a wonderful Sunday, full of church and relaxing. All day I've been planning on blogging tonight and trying to decide exactly what to write about. I've had a couple of inspirational, religious thoughts I was toying with that might be appropriate for Sunday. But.... As I was changing out my laundry I finally realized what I should blog about:

Now, for a while I was a physics teaching major and while I didn't learn too much from my classes, I felt like I had heard somwhere that matter can't be created nor destroyed. Or something along those lines. Anyways, as I changed out my clothes I went to take out the lint. And then it hit me... Where in the world does all this stuff come from? Now, I understand a lot of you might think exactly what I thought initially. "That's easy, it comes from the cloth of the clothing in the dryer." Well, my clothes don't look THAT much different than when they went in and I feel like i'm pulling out enough lint to make a whole shirt after every other load. So where does all this stuff come from? If it is from the clothes then if I kept drying one shirt would it just disintegrate after like a day of being in the dryer? I think I might have to try it....

So... Is this where all my missing socks have gone? turned into lint... dang you dryer and your thievery!!!