That Word: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

I’ll begin with a disclaimer:  I am an English major who last took a physics class in high school; Newton makes some sense to me, but, not being Richard Feynman, that quantum business does not.

In normal conversation, inertia means something akin to glued-to-the-couch.  The thing is, the term comes from Newton, who said, more or less, a body at rest tends to remain at rest and a body in motion tends to remain in motion unless acted on by an outside force.  That’s inertia, baby.  It’s not just the part where we remain at rest.

 

This is good news.  It means that starting is the hardest part.  Once we get moving, it’s easier to keep going than it is to stop.

 

Let’s find the energy to get started!