• Sentau@feddit.de
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    Is this actually third law being broken or is it that the mechanism these oddly flexing microorganisms use is not well enough understood

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      It seems like this article would call an F1 car with a low drag coefficient “disobeying Newton’s third law”

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      Everytime you are asking yourself "did I just make world changing discovery, or did I miss something? " it is time to think twice about it. While the first one does happen from time to time, the latter happens much more often.

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    but only if they have strange elastic properties

    What if they don’t have strange elastic properties? Why would they have strange elastic properties? Should I assume it’s more likely that they break newton’s third law and have strange elastic properties than that they don’t break newton’s third law and don’t have strange elastic properties?

    I don’t know how to read so I’m not clicking on the article btw