Gravity and the quantum vacuum inertia hypothesis
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Gravity and the quantum vacuum inertia hypothesis
In previous work it has been shown that the electromagnetic quantum vacuum, or electromagnetic zero-point field, makes a contribution to the inertial reaction force on an accelerated object. We show that the result for inertial mass can be extended to passive gravitational mass. As a consequence the weak equivalence principle, which equates inertial to passive gravitational mass, appears to be ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annalen der Physik
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0003-3804,1521-3889
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200510147