Modifying the laws of physics?

 Gravity and Laws of Motion —They’re Heavy Man

If you are reading this on the day it was posted, then it’s the 319th anniversary of the day in 1705 that Isaac Newton became “Sir” Isaac Newton.  This was sort of a big deal for someone who had a couple of obstacles tossed in his 17th Century path including his father passing away about three month before he was born.  The source that provided that fact didn’t say how Newton’s father met his demise, however, it adds a little comic relief to imagine his papa was struck down by a torrent of walnuts as his father failed to recognize the universal power of gravity and due to inertia couldn’t rise up and move fast enough to avoid the pounding.  Nonetheless (this blog has included “nonetheless” far too many times lately providing evidence that vocabularies standing still tend to continue to stand still.  

So Newton provided the empirical/scientific community with three basic “laws of motion and some principles concerning gravity that guided most of our traditional study of physics until Einstein brought up that pesky e=mc squared idea which led to the invention of the flux capacitor  by Doc. Brown (Take that AI.  

Anyway what were these three laws of motion?  More importantly is there modern day evidence showing they were both reliable and observable?

1. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion.  Well when you drop. A round object off a counter matter how slowly you were moving when you bumped it.  The earring back will roll all the way across the bathroom floor passing the rug and your towel from today’s shower and only come to rest when it finds it’s way to the tile directly behind the exact center of your toilet.  Secondly, Once you start eating potato chips your hand continues dipping into the bag over and over until pretty much all that is left is a salty bag and some crumbs on your navy blue shirt.
2. 2. Objects at Rest Tend to stay at Rest (unless a tremendous force is place upon them?  So once you set your remote to binge watch four entire seasons of The Golden Girls or Law and Order, you tend to sit on the couch and not move for episode. After episode until, in fact, the 64 oz. Diet soda you drank about 5 hours ago has filled your bladder and then you will become an object in motion headed toward the before mentioned toilet where many people then become an object at rest again.  
3. 2. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The evidence for this is overwhelming.  Every time you make a little more money, everything.  You need to survive will go up in price, your car will break down, a filling will fall out etc.  

You see these are useful rules or laws, however here are a few that Newton didn’t anticipate and are important to people living now. 

For Example

1. Every time you leave your smart phone in the bedroom when you are going to get something out of the kitchen that phone will ring, however it will stop when you are spilling your drink and are only one step away from your phone.
2. When you have less than three minutes to put your shoes on and get to the bus even though you live less than 20 yards away from the bus stop, your shoe string will break as you tie the second shoe meaning you have to deal with changing or fixing both shoes.
1. Whenever you really really really want some obnoxiously chocolate and sugary  cookies all that will be available is some sort of stale prepackaged “fig” chunks.  Thank you Sir Isaac Newton. 
1. So the Peace and Joy take aways?   You can make up rules to live by, however over. Time they are liable to need. Some updates or modifications. 
2. Your rules might not be respected or fully agreed upon and 
3. Somebody smarter than you or different from you is likely to come up with some entirely novel ideas about how the universe and you should act under all conditions and a whole lot of people may work hard to prove they were right—and in the grander scheme of things that’s okay.  . 

If you carry over that “every action has an opposite reaction does that mean you should make yourself miserable if you want other people to be happy?  That doesn’t seem reasonable.  If my enemies eat too much will my friends get really skinny?  Now science tells us this whole opposite reaction thing is about “conservation of energy” and you’ve used just about enough energy reading this far… so let’s forget the “opposite thing for now and just keep seeking some peace and joy with the hope that when we come across some… we keep seeking and having peace and joy cross our paths.  

Oh and maybe we’ll find some better cookies—some Nilla Wafers at least?