Eli5: Why can’t two people pick each other up at the same time and essentially “fly”?
In: Physics
In essence, this has all got to do with Newton’s third law that states there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
So for example when person A lifts person B Person A experiences a downwards force of the same sizes as he is using to lift person B with. This is the same reason why guns have recoil when shot.
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