INERTIA AS A ZERO-POINT-FIELD LORENTZ FORCE

被引:110
作者
HAISCH, B
RUEDA, A
PUTHOFF, HE
机构
[1] MAX PLANCK INST EXTRATERR PHYS, D-85740 GARCHING, GERMANY
[2] CALIF STATE UNIV LONG BEACH, DEPT ELECT ENGN, LONG BEACH, CA 90840 USA
[3] INST ADV STUDIES, AUSTIN, TX 78759 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1994年 / 49卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.49.678
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Under the hypothesis that ordinary matter is ultimately made of subelementary constitutive primary charged entities or ''partons'' bound in the manner of traditional elementary Planck oscillators (a timehonored classical technique), it is shown that a heretofore uninvestigated Lorentz force (specifically, the magnetic component of the Lorentz force) arises in any accelerated reference frame from the interaction of the partons with the vacuum electromagnetic zero-point field (ZPF). Partons, though asymptotically free at the highest frequencies, are endowed with a sufficiently large ''bare mass'' to allow interactions with the ZPF at very high frequencies up to the Planck frequencies. This Lorentz force, though originating at the subelementary parton level, appears to produce an opposition to the acceleration of material objects at a macroscopic level having the correct characteristics to account for the property pf inertia. We thus propose the interpretation that inertia is an electromagnetic resistance arising from the known spectral distortion of the ZPF in accelerated frames. The proposed concept also suggests a physically rigorous version of Mach's principle. Moreover, some preliminary independent corroboration is suggested for ideas proposed by Sakharov (Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 177, 70 (1968) [Sov. Phys. Dokl. 12, 1040 (1968)]) and further explored by one of us [H. E. Puthoff, Phys. Rev. A 39, 2333 (1989)] concerning a ZPF-based model of Newtonian gravity, and for the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass as dictated by the principle of equivalence.
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