1. +1 insightful, thanks for sharing your physics knowledge

2. I know you know this, but for the sake of others, it's when _braking_ (applying the brakes), not _breaking_ (becoming broken).

I'm not a pedant. But these errors jump out at me and I'm always a bit surprised and dismayed at this dichotomy; in our field, somehow the requisite attention to detail, the precision inherent to communicating scientific concepts, code, algorithms and formulae, is so often just abandoned when it comes to prose.