COOL! This Science-Loving Runner Spent an Entire Sunday Demonstrating Newton’s First Law of Motion
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A local runner spent nearly all his waking hours Sunday as a living science lesson, Dumb Runner has learned, in a real-time demonstration of Newton’s first law of motion.
John Kepler, 34, who reportedly had run 18 miles the previous day, woke up Sunday morning, headed for his living room couch, and didn’t move, except to eat and visit the restroom, until nearly 8 p.m., sources said.
Sir Isaac Newton, born in 1642, was an English polymath known for many scientific and mathematical breakthroughs, including his laws of motion. The first of those laws reads, “An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force.”
Or, as explained on Space.com:
His first law stated that objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and objects in motion tend to stay in motion. In other words, there's this thing called "inertia," which is a measure of an object's resistance to motion.
This idea was … new. Previously, most thinkers thought that individual objects had a natural inclination to either move or not move (e.g., to explain why the wind tended to blow but rocks preferred to stay put). Likewise, some objects preferred to float (like clouds) while others didn't (like people). But Newton flipped this on its head: all objects had an innate resistance to new motion, and it took a force to get them to change.
“All day long, John illustrated this beautifully,” a source told Dumb Runner. “His resistance to motion was absolute. Dude didn’t do a thing all day long.”
Reached for comment, Kepler bristled at the idea that he did nothing Sunday, noting that he rewatched the entire first season of “The Wire,” “checked out a bunch of things” online, and took a nap.
Asked whether he’s always been a fan of Isaac Newton, Kepler said, “Huh?”
