Inertia states that an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion unless another force affects it. The opposite of this would be that an object will continue to stay in motion (or rest) regardless of what forces affect it. Let’s say that inertia vanished when playing sports. If this concept was translated to basketball, you would find that it would be extremely difficult to play the game. Without inertia, you couldn’t even follow the rules. When you try to dribble the ball, instead of it bouncing up and down, it would either bounce and then continue at a constant speed in the direction it was repelled in or it would refuse to move. If you tried to score a point (you wouldn’t be able to dribble the ball) you
