This was a serious conversation at my job today. My boss says that since there is no gravity in space the force would just push the punched and the puncher away from each other with no damage taking place. I say the force will be lessened but it will still cause damage.
Thoughts?
Edit: this thread now stands as a monument to my bosses lack of physics knowledge and my lack of confidence in my knowledge of physics.
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Edited by Kalameet: 8/4/2015 2:50:06 PMYour boss has no concept of physics. The force of the impact would be equal to that on earth, it's just that there's no other forces to cancel out the reactionary force, pushing you two away from each other.