Scientists Discover Levitating Time Crystals You Can Hold, Defy Newton’s 3rd Law

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They don't actually break the third law, it's just an apparent effect when you look only at the particles and not at the whole system.

Sometimes in Physics it's nice to concentrate in these apparent effects and study them, sometimes they are nice for clickbait titles.

> Defy Newton’s 3rd Law

How many laws did Newton have ? 10 ? 15 ?

3 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_laws_of_motion

This is language witchcraft. Some "laws" described there are "principles". That's how i learned them in school and that's why i was surprised to see "Newton's third law". I think i am getting old.

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