Inertia and Inertial Resistance in Relativity Theory
Speaker: Peter J. Riggs
Affiliation: Australian National University
Abstract
The fundamental nature of inertia remains a major unsolved problem in physics. A broader concept of ‘resistance to acceleration’ than used in classical dynamics, called ‘inertial resistance’, is quantified for both inertial and non-inertial relativistic motion. It is shown that inertial resistance is more than particle inertia and originates from spacetime structure.
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