The Spacetime Metric

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Haisch, Rueda and Puthoff’s 1997 overview explores whether a fluctuating electromagnetic background could explain inertia, the resistance of matter to acceleration. They describe a model in which charged constituents oscillate in this background and experience a force opposing acceleration. The inferred mass depends on an oscillation damping constant and an interaction frequency limit; replacing that limit with a particle resonance is proposed as a refinement. Their gravity extension uses secondary fields from these oscillations, but still needs a fully relativistic treatment. The approach then covers photons rather than the weak and strong interactions. As a possible test, they propose looking for energy growth of about 1 keV per second in individual antiprotons in an ideal collision-free trap, detected through annihilation at its walls.

Physics of the zero-point field: implications for inertia, gravitation and mass

  1. Bernhard Haisch(Author)
  2. Alfonso Rueda(Author)
  3. H. E. Puthoff(Author)

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1997
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Speculations in Science and Technology, volume 20, pp. 99–114, March 1997; summary bound to 12-page author preprint
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Original title
Physics of the zero-point field: implications for inertia, gravitation and mass
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  1. Bernhard Haisch(Author)
  2. Alfonso Rueda(Author)
  3. H. E. Puthoff(Author)
Year
1997
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Edition
Speculations in Science and Technology, volume 20, pp. 99–114, March 1997; summary bound to 12-page author preprint
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