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Rueda and Haisch propose that part of inertia, the resistance to acceleration, could arise from interaction with the electromagnetic vacuum. Their calculation describes an accelerating object encountering a flow of momentum in zero-point radiation, the background fields used in their model. They interpret absorption or scattering of that radiation as a force opposing acceleration. The proposed mass contribution depends on the object’s volume and the fraction of radiation interacting with it at each frequency. That fraction is assumed to decrease at high frequencies, limiting the contribution of those frequencies. The calculation covers forces along the direction of motion. The microscopic interaction remains unspecified, and the authors leave a quantum derivation and the connection to general relativity for further work.
Inertia as reaction of the vacuum to accelerated motion
- Alfonso Rueda(Author)
- Bernhard Haisch(Author)
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- 1998
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- Physics Letters A
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- arXiv:physics/9802031v1 author manuscript; journal publication March 1998
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- Inertia as reaction of the vacuum to accelerated motion
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- Alfonso Rueda(Author)
- Bernhard Haisch(Author)
- Year
- 1998
- Publisher
- Physics Letters A
- Edition
- arXiv:physics/9802031v1 author manuscript; journal publication March 1998
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- Original source links
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