Physics

[insomniac10986]

According to Newton's Third Law of Motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Therefor, would it not be normal to assume that after so many bad circumstances and situations have occurred, there would need to be a whole lot of good stuff to happen?...you know so that the universe is evened out and all? If this is really true

Comments

[jiveturky]

Newton's Laws only apply in a closed system. Your life, unfortunately, is not one of these.

[jiveturky]

Yeah, but you knew that.

[insomniac10986]

you replied too quickly before my ninja edit.

[jiveturky]

a samurai knows no time constraints

[insomniac10986]

hahah, well the first law doesn't unless outerspace is also considered a closed system. Which leads me to think it's more the first law then which would apply, which means that bad circumstances will continue to happen until something stops them. Greeeaaattt.

[jiveturky]

Yeah, there's a lot of speculation as to whether or not one could consider the universe a closed system or not. The Earth isn't even a closed system, however the laws hold up pretty well since the external variables (such as sunlight, solar wind, lunar gravity affecting tides) don't generally change the majority of actions.

[insomniac10986]

That's because there's not really an equal and opposite reaction to said variables...or a mass...and then again, how shitty the periods in someone's life are don't really have a mass, but they sure do have an opposite.

[jiveturky]

Well, probably not, really.

How could you accurately quantify the shittiness of a period to discern its opposite?

[insomniac10986]

If it makes you think damn, I wish this had happened when so-and-so bad period of time happened, I'd say that'd be the opposite. You usually know or have some kind of idea what would make you happy in a period of shittiness.

[jiveturky]

Right, but that doesn't make it the opposite action. It just makes it a preferred one.

[insomniac10986]

Yes but the bad experience is the not preferred one. So therefor the preferred would still be the opposite.

[jiveturky]

There are multiple unpreferred actions and multiple preferred ones. How do you know which is the opposite of your example?

[0ne_s0ng_gl0ry]

end this...!

[insomniac10986]

the funny (or sad)thing is we were having a completely different conversation on aim at the same time.