Another thought: Newton’s third law is equivalent to conservation of momentum. If you can magically counteract the former you could potentially use this to make a magical reactionless drive! Not what the Aurors are going for.
If it were that easy to create spells of mass destruction simply by tampering with little understood physical principles, I’d think people would have done it before.
Of course, in the wizarding world, I suppose that if people have done it before, there isn’t a strong expectation of evidence that the knowledge would be publicly available.
Another thought: Newton’s third law is equivalent to conservation of momentum. If you can magically counteract the former you could potentially use this to make a magical reactionless drive! Not what the Aurors are going for.
If it were that easy to create spells of mass destruction simply by tampering with little understood physical principles, I’d think people would have done it before.
Of course, in the wizarding world, I suppose that if people have done it before, there isn’t a strong expectation of evidence that the knowledge would be publicly available.