Question

If action and reaction are equal and opposite, why do they never cancel out?

Answer 1

Answer:

According to Newton's Third Law of Motion,we know

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

But there's one more statement Newton proposed along the proposal of this law,that is they never acts on the same body

Yeah The complete statement is that,Every action has an equal and opposite reaction and bith forces takes place on different bodies in opposite directions.

Hence,they never cancel each other