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Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years 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.