According to Newton's third law of motion, action and reaction are equal and opposite, then why do we see a stone falling to the earth and not the earth rising towards the stone?
Any object which is falling towards the Earth exerts an equal and opposite force towards the earth. But, we see a stone falling towards the earth and not the movement of the Earth towards the stone. This is because of the large mass of the Earth as compared to that of the stone. Hence, the acceleration produced in the stone is very large as compared to that of the earth.
So the stone readily falls towards the earth while the earth does not rise at all.