This is because Newton refined Galileo's idea of inertia and created it as his first law of motion. Galileo stated that it was the propensity of things to resist changes in motion. Newton refined it by including: "Every thing continues in a condition of rest or uniform speed in a straight line except acted on by a nonzero net power".
Roughly 1609 meters in one mile
the answer of this question is helium
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