{"id":238852,"date":"2026-06-12T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/why-birds-ignore-newton-new-theory-could-sharpen-models-of-flocks-crowds-and-cells"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:16:10","slug":"why-birds-ignore-newton-new-theory-could-sharpen-models-of-flocks-crowds-and-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/why-birds-ignore-newton-new-theory-could-sharpen-models-of-flocks-crowds-and-cells","title":{"rendered":"Why birds ignore Newton: New theory could sharpen models of flocks, crowds and cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-birds-ignore-newton-new-theory-could-sharpen-models-of-flocks-crowds-and-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Birds in flocks, bacteria and cells: In many collective systems, individual elements respond to only part of their surroundings, seemingly defying Newton\u2019s third law of motion\u2014action equals reaction. These exceptions are known as nonreciprocal interactions. A Dresden physics team working with Roderich Moessner, a founding member of the W\u00fcrzburg\u2013Dresden Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat, has now developed a theory that makes it possible to describe these interactions efficiently and simulate them far more precisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds in flocks, bacteria and cells: In many collective systems, individual elements respond to only part of their surroundings, seemingly defying Newton\u2019s third law of motion\u2014action equals reaction. These exceptions are known as nonreciprocal interactions. A Dresden physics team working with Roderich Moessner, a founding member of the W\u00fcrzburg\u2013Dresden Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat, has now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}