Some biological cells swim freely in a way that apparently breaks one of Newton’s laws of motion – but only if they have strange elastic properties
  • Sentau@feddit.de
    15·
    1 year ago

    Is this actually third law being broken or is it that the mechanism these oddly flexing microorganisms use is not well enough understood

    • glibg10b@lemmy.ml
      14·
      1 year ago

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

    • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
      9·
      1 year ago

      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.