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Rueda and Haisch develop a stochastic-electrodynamics model of inertia by transforming electromagnetic zero-point fields for an object undergoing constant proper acceleration. They interpret absorption or scattering of the resulting momentum flux as a reaction opposing acceleration, with an effective mass depending on the object’s volume and frequency-dependent coupling. That coupling must decrease at high frequencies, and the momentum integrals require a specified integration convention. A covariant appendix includes electromagnetic stresses, removes the earlier 4/3 factor and recovers the standard relativistic four-momentum form. The calculation addresses the electromagnetic contribution, leaves microscopic interaction dynamics unspecified and treats extension to general motion as an argument requiring further explicit examples, rather than a completed account of all matter’s inertia.

Contribution to Inertial Mass by Reaction of the Vacuum to Accelerated Motion