Would a person be able to punch a truck away, if his ability was to subvert "Newton's 3rd Law of Motion"?

I'm struggling with the physics here a bit since I'm a complete novice at this. I'm making a character who's main ability is to subvert/play around with the 3rd Law of motion (For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction)

In my understanding and logic, If a normal person punches something significantly bigger than him as a truck with all his energy, he would end up messing up or worse, breaking his own knuckles. However, if the moment his knuckles made contact with the truck(action), he was able to negate/reduce significantly the force being exerted back(reaction), he could blow away the truck with his punch.

My question is, if an individual has the ability to negate the reaction/ backward force of an object after he applied force on it, would he be able to send them flying with his punches? And would an object that received such a punch get damaged from the punch?

posted almost 5 years ago

Nass King‭

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