With their whip-like tails, human sperm propel themselves through viscous fluids, seemingly in defiance of Newton's third law of motion, according to a new study that characterizes the motion of these sex cells and single-celled algae.
TL;DR no, they obviously didn’t. They just haven’t figured out all the math on some fluid dynamics yet. I can’t overstate how badly the concept of “Newton’s Third Law” is being abused here.
TL;DR no, they obviously didn’t. They just haven’t figured out all the math on some fluid dynamics yet. I can’t overstate how badly the concept of “Newton’s Third Law” is being abused here.
So pretty standard science journalism then