Gravitation as an Inertial Disturbance
| Scientific Paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | Gravitation as an Inertial Disturbance |
| Author(s) | David F Roscoe |
| Keywords | gravitation, inertial disturbance, collisions, massive particles, (GFI), curved space-times |
| Published | 1991 |
| Journal | Galilean Electrodynamics |
| Volume | 2 |
| Number | 6 |
| Pages | 103-109 |
Abstract
In [1], the class of all collisions between massive particles was analyzed to show that this class could be partitioned into those collisions involving four particles, or less the subclass of so-called "inertially determined collisions" and the rest, and it was subsequently shown that the inertially determined collisions could be given a representation in terms of the geometry on a collision manifold. In the present paper, it is shown that this collision manifold geometry supports inertial processes which cannot be distinguished from gravitational processes, up to and including those associated with the binary pulsar the most extreme accepted test of a gravitation theory. In effect, the analysis shows that gravitational process can be consistently considered as a special case of inertial process, so that the enduring mystery of the equivalence between gravitational and inertial mass can be finally understood. Significant consequences of gravitation-from-inertial mass can be finally understood. Significant consequences of gravitation-from-inertia (GFI) are: concepts of curved space-times are redundant to gravitational physics; the essential singularities at gravitational origins, which are features of both Newtonian gravitation and GR, do not exist; gravitational process becomes a particle/particle interaction of the conventional kind.
