Newton's Sixteenth Law of the Internet

[coendou]

I know this comm is beyond dead and all, but I just couldn't resist this.

Over in fanficrants, cauldronofdoom posts a physics rant. They just hate it when authors get basic motion wrong in fics, which is a valid complaint. However, within this post they manage to mislabel Newton's Third Law as his First Law, AND attribute the phenomenon in question to the Third Law when,

Comments

[hotclaws]

delightfully stupid

[kittenmommy]

Yes! :D

[tanwen]

Boy Sheldon tried to back out of that one didn't he?

[incredible_ink]

so pretty much everyone's head of Newton's Firs Third Law, right?

Yeah, we've all head of them. Sure.

[paksenarrion2]

Somebody got the breaks/brakes one so I grabbed this.

I know it was a typo and lord knows I've made plenty but really just had to. *eg*

[nitouche]

And the third law is better phrased as "For every action force there is an equal and opposite reaction force," to be nit picky (and of course we are).

Thank you! A delightful little stupid to brighten up a very grey day :)