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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I think the more interesting thing is that a moving object will keep moving at constant speed unless a force is applied to it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Like, um, the friction against the ground that the object is moving on. Isaac Newton observed commonplace phenomena then figured out the scientific reasoning behind the phenomena then put it all into words that we now quote as time-tested & true scientific dogma.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Then Einstein comes in and says everything is moving at a constant spacetime velocity, and that friction isn't a real force.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Friction is real, it's the "force" of gravity that is an illusion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

True, like any good physicist, which I am not, I skipped the explanation of physics world. I was trying to be more funny than clever.

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