When we jump, do we move the earth just a little bit because of the force we apply, just like the 3rd law of Newton states?
In: Physics
No.
There is an equal and opposite reaction but there is the tinyest little bit of squish in the stuff that makes up the earth and it absorbs the force of the jump before the force can act on the whole planet.
Technically yes. When you push off the earth, the earth pushes off you with an equal reactionary force. But since F=ma, and your mass is so very insignificant compared to the Earths, the Earth does not accelerate away from you to any practical or observable sense. But _technically_ … yes.
In. Belgium they checked once what happend during the world championship of soccer when Belgium made a goal and the seismograph could register this cause the people where jumping…. So yes
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