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Friction made it difficult to discover newton's first law because under the law an object in motion will remain in motion at a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force. Friction is an external force that slows objects in motion due to air friction (drag) and rolling resistance, making it appear as though this law is untrue.

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For the first hundred thousand years of human history, the law of motion was:

A moving object with no external forces acting on it tends to stop moving. And

indeed, there is a significant portion of the world's human population who still

instinctly believe that it's the truth. Friction is what makes it seem true, but it

isn't, and it took a Newton to figure that out.

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The First Law says that a moving object will continue to move indefinitely - if there is no net force. This condition (no net force) is not fulfilled if there is friction; as a result, a moving object will gradually get slower (see also Newton's Second Law).

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friction pushes the opposite way the objects moving. and as for your observation question, i dont know. I think it has something to do with quantum mechanics.

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newtons laws are idealised and don't involve external forces like friction and air resistance

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