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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Couldn’t an extraordinarily precise clock measure the amount of time a ball in mid air isn’t moving so therefore if physicists wanted to describe it as such it could be called at rest same as me sitting on a sofa because it’s just a matter of time before my body weight is going to win out even though at the moment the forces are (almost) equal not allowing me to fall through?
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No, no matter how small your interval of measure is the ball in midair will always exhibit some movement in that interval.
EDIT: To be clear, we're talking about Newtonian physics here.