During my professional career, i got hit by a lot of big people, some big masss can you explain the physics of some of those hits, please? O la, resting, yes. So there are two laws of the universe that we have never seen violated, ever. One is the law of the conservation of momentum. The other one is the conservation of energyw we would broaden at to be the conservation of mass energy but for football, we only need to think energy. That's why they have theseee, these football pads. Theyre like plates of plastic on the shoulders and plates across your chest,. so that if you hit it, that energy dissipates throughout the the pads
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