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the universe's commitment to leaving things exactly as it found them.
means The tendency of any object to keep doing what it's already doing — staying still or moving steadily — unless some force intervenes.
from From Latin 'iners,' meaning idle, unskilled, or sluggish (literally 'without art' — 'in-' not + 'ars' skill). The German astronomer Kepler borrowed it in the early 1600s, and Newton cemented it as a physics term for matter's resistance to changes in its motion. So a word that once meant 'lazy and useless' became the universe's official excuse for never lifting a finger.
- Newton's first
- Objects keep doing whatever until forced otherwise
- No favorites
- Same law for couches and comets
- Seatbelt logic
- Your body wants to keep going forward
- Mass matters
- More stuff means more stubbornness
- Space perk
- A thrown wrench drifts forever, no slowing
for instance
newton's first law — foundational physics principle stating objects at rest stay at rest unless acted upon by force