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On the carrier of inertia

Erkki KolehmainenArto AnnilaPatrick Grahn

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ANOMALIESPhotonmedia_common.quotation_subjectvacuumUNIVERSEGeneral Physics and AstronomyCosmological constantPHOTONSInertia01 natural sciencesGravitationMomentumGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyGravitational potentialElectromagnetism0103 physical sciences010306 general physics010303 astronomy & astrophysicsCOSMOLOGICAL CONSTANTmedia_commonPhysicsfotonitta114LEAST-ACTIONgravitaatioinertialiike115 Astronomy Space sciencelcsh:QC1-999UniverseTIMEmotion (physical phenomena)GALAXIESClassical mechanicsgravitationWAVEPRINCIPLECLUSTERSlcsh:Physics

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A change in momentum will inevitably perturb the all-embracing vacuum, whose reaction we understand as inertia. Since the vacuum's physical properties relate to light, we propose that the vacuum embodies photons, but in pairs without net electromagnetic fields. In this physical form the free space houses energy in balance with the energy of matter in the whole Universe. Likewise, we reason that a local gravitational potential is the vacuum in a local balance with energy that is bound to a body. Since a body couples to the same vacuum universally and locally, we understand that inertial and gravitational masses are identical. By the same token, we infer that gravity and electromagnetism share the similar functional form because both are carried by the vacuum photons as paired and unpaired. (C) 2018 Author(s). Peer reviewed

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5020240