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I believe you will find that if you carefully consider all the forces that act, you will discover that the action and reaction forces act on different bodies. For example, if you push a box across the floor, you exert a force on the box and the box exerts an equal and opposite force on you. If the box didn't, your hand would go through the box.

Correct, in other words Newtons Laws wouldn't be true and the box would not react to your action. To answer your question, I would guestimate you would have to consider if an action could happen instantaneously, in that case, it would be at zero and infinity all at the same time... like a never ending function or cycle. OR, it would have an absolute zero value at the moment the shift of force takes place, but for this to be true, it would need to happen over a gradual span of time. Even at lightning speeds but not instantaneously.

Gravity as a separate kind of force

The difference is that Newton recognized that gravity is a mutual attraction, not a force acting in opposite directions. This means that while an object (e.g. the Earth) is exerting a force downward, the surface of the earth has to resist that force or everything will accelerate and sink to the core. At no time is antigravity being generated. The Earth and the objects on its surface are "attracting each other."

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