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Why is momentum conserved?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a Connection Between Conservation and Momentum?

Bell: It gets pretty hard to do these calculations, because your intuition really assumes that these things are concerned. I think maybe an intuitive way to understand it is to think about just the relative sense of these quantities. What matters is not where you are in the universe, but your velocity relative to that stuff. That's why momentum is conserved, and not like location.

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