• redballooon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Having taken not only Highschool physics but also university physics courses I know that.

    That doesn’t change that for most people in most environments the sentence “if an object isn’t pushed it’ll stop” is, in fact, true.

    It becomes false only if you change the context, but I would argue, if you know all the facts and scenarios, that’s willful misunderstanding.

    • Sethayy@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Ngl saying it isnt pushed vs isnt acted on by a force are entirely difference scenarios, a push is a subset of forces (as im sure you know with your uni courses right ;)

      Else newtons laws would be incorrect on a macro scale, which to say at the least would be… concerning