We report on the progress of a NASA-funded study being carried out at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto and the California State University in Long Beach to investigate the proposed link between the zero-point field of the quantum vacuum and inertia. It is well known that an accelerating observer will experience a bath of radiation resulting from the quantum vacuum which mimics that of a heat bath, the so-called Davies-Unruh effect. We have further analyzed this problem of an accelerated object moving through the vacuum and have shown that the zero-point field will yield a non-zero Poynting vector to an accelerating observer. Scattering of this radiation by the quarks and electrons constituting matter would result in an acceleration-dependent reaction force that would appear to be the origin of inertia of matter (Rueda and Haisch 1998a, 1998b). In the subrelativistic case this inertia reaction force is exactly newtonian and in the relativistic case it exactly reproduces the well known relativistic extension of Newton’s Law. This analysis demonstrates then that both the ordinary, F⃗=ma⃗, and the relativistic forms of Newton’s equation of motion may be derived from Maxwell’s equations as applied to the electromagnetic zero-point field. We expect to be able to extend this analysis in the future to more general versions of the quantum vacuum than just the electromagnetic one discussed herein.


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    Titel :

    Progress in establishing a connection between the electromagnetic zero-point field and inertia


    Beteiligte:
    Haisch, Bernhard (Autor:in) / Rueda, Alfonso (Autor:in) / Bragg, Mary J. (Herausgeber:in) / El-Genk, Mohamed S. (Herausgeber:in)

    Kongress:

    Space technology and applications international forum -1999 ; 1999 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)


    Erschienen in:

    AIP Conference Proceedings ; 458 , 1 ; 988-993


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    22.01.1999


    Format / Umfang :

    6 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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