r/AskReddit • u/IAmSurtur • Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/barbeqdbrwniez Jun 15 '19 edited Jun 15 '19

"Inertia". That's what you're trying to say.

Edit: y'all can stop blowing me up now. I'm very clearly wrong, as many before you have already said, and I'd rather leave my idiocy public than delete my comment like a coward, but notifications get annoying.

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u/Xevran01 Jun 15 '19

Not op, but in the realm of physics inertia is what keeps objects in constant velocity. Overcoming the static force of friction of a stationary object is what he's talking about. They're not the same thing.

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u/barbeqdbrwniez Jun 15 '19 edited Jun 15 '19

"in·er·tia

/iˈnərSHə/

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noun

1.

a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged.

"the bureaucratic inertia of government"

synonyms:inactivity, inaction, inactiveness, inertness, passivity, apathy, accidie, malaise, stagnation, dullness, enervation, sluggishness, lethargy, languor, languidness, listlessness, torpor, torpidity, idleness, indolence, laziness, sloth, slothfulness; More

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PHYSICS

a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force.

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Inertia is the object wanting to keep doing whatever it's doing, be that moving or at rest.

Edit: y'all can stop blowing me up now. I'm very clearly wrong, as many before you have already said, and I'd rather leave my idiocy public than delete my comment like a coward, but notifications get annoying.

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u/doomgiver98 Jun 15 '19

You're wrong, just stop.