Première loi de Newton ou principe d’inertie

Première loi de Newton ou principe d’inertie // Newton’s first law or principle of inertia

Today’s prompt is “law”, loi.

The Newton’s first law of motion says:

Tout corps persévère dans l’état de repos ou de mouvement uniforme en ligne droite dans lequel il se trouve, à moins que quelque force n’agisse sur lui, et ne le contraigne à changer d’état.

All bodies persevere in the state of rest or uniform movement in a straight line in which they find themselves, unless some force acts on them, and compels them to change their state.

The “law of inertia” is used so much to explain all sort of (non)occurrences, not necessarily physical ones, that it almost lost its original meaning. I, for one, completely forgot about the “movement in straight line” part of it.

In quarantine news: Canaries are moving to phase 1 of de-quarantining on Monday. I am still not quite sure how it will work, but surely there will be more freedom to move and do stuff. So... I will draw a last pic-a-day on Monday and the take a well-deserved break.