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Here we can be looking at the interactions of elementary particles and comparing them to some everyday situation that we might be a little more familiar with.
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So let's imagine that we have an ice skating rink.
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And there's two people here, a couple of ice skaters, standing facing each other, and i'll give them little skates that they were on, right? so the point of the skates and the skating rink is to remove friction, make it, you know, frictional forces negligible here.
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And so let's imagine that they're throwing a ball back and forth, right? what happens when this person on the left throws a ball over to the right? well, the force that they have to throw the ball with, that's going to cause them to move backwards, according to newton's third law.
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A reaction has an equal opposite reaction...