See, I favor more of a black hole/white hole/wormhole theory of dryers. My own dryer is a white hole; it routinely spits out socks I have never seen before and that would not, in fact, fit on any foot in this household. Okay, it sometimes eats socks, too, but my suspicion is that there's just some kind of time dilation effect there.

*thoughtful*

You aren't missing a soft, fuzzy navy blue ankle sock, are you? That's the last one that emerged from our dryer. (And, yes, I think you're entirely right - all the spinning definitely has something to do with it.)