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Have We Been Misinterpreting Newton’s First Law for 300 Years?

For nearly 300 years, Isaac Newton’s first law of motion has been one of the most fundamental principles in physics. But a new study suggests that a small mistranslation in its original English ...
Yahoo

We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For Almost 300 Years

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we'd be discussing them three centuries later. Writing in Latin, Newton outlined three ...
Reason

"We Need Not Apply Newton's First Law of Motion to Legal Precedent"

An interesting turn of phrase from Tuesday's concurrence by Judge Michael Catlett, joined by Judge James Morse Jr., in Hintzen-Gaines v. Adelson. The specific issue the two judges (who actually formed ...
Lifehacker

Newton’s First Law Applies to Productivity Too

There’s plenty of chatter and research surrounding the so-called “laws” of productivity, but even the laws we use to govern other areas of our lives can be applicable when there are things that need ...
Hackaday

Mistranslation Of Newton’s First Law Discovered After Nearly 300 Years

For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based ...
New Scientist

Newton’s first law appears to break down in the quantum realm

An experiment with light shows that one of the fundamental laws of motion may not always hold in the quantum realm. Much of our understanding of how objects like tennis balls or bicycles move stems ...