I'm a bit distracted
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 10:37Keeping one eye on the Russia invasion while grinding characters in Another Eden... Anyway, found this little bit of...um, idiocy, in the Washington Post today:
Putin Gets a Lesson in Physics and Judo
Dude, my man, the Third Law is For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
. This "two bodies interact" is not how you quote the Third Law, it's how you explain the damn thing to first year physics students.
Also, you ruin the entire thing by saying the reaction was not in fact equal but was "more than equal", thus it doesn't follow the Third Law at all.
I'm not saying you need to know that much physics, but I feel like knowing the formal statement of Newton's laws isn't actually that much to ask, right?