Re: Is spacetime curvature the source of inertia?

On May 31, 3:23 am, "Sue..." <suzysewns...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 31, 1:06 am, RP <no_mail_no_s...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 30, 10:43 pm, Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Very concise reply, as always. As indicated by my previous post I'm
in general agreement with you. "Inertia" is not a property at all,
just a sentiment. An incorrect one at that. A mass doesn't have
inertia, it has mass. A mass doesn't exhibit inertia, it exhibits
conservation of energy and momentum wrt other masses. Just one of many
meaningless concepts still present in modern texts.-

That point of view gives an unsatisfactory answer to:
"Where is the energy of a bullet stored?".

Then maybe you can define inertia for us in terms that make it
quantifiable, and then explain how inertia has anything to do with
energy storage. Energy isn't an invariant, and thus is not a physcal
thing. The kinetic energy of a bullet has meaning only when taken wrt
some other mass, i.e. it's a relative quantity.

While I agree we need something to reference a number of properties
to, in every case "the other matter in the universe" always seems to
be the correct answer. The metric is a perfect fit. OTOH, like you, I
agree that the map isn't the territory, that is, there is something
more to the metric than geometry. It's field, the geometrization of
which doesn't render it any less a field. Whether we speak of forces
or of spacetime curvature is just a matter of preference.

But regardless, "inertia" has no place in physics, because it isn't
quantifiable. It's really just the statement that "for every force
there is an equal and opposite force". Problem is, if these equal and
opposite forces acted on the same mass, then it wouldn't accellerate.
The problem with the concept is thus that people wrongly equate it to
a restance to accelleration where there really is no such thing. In
the case of Newtons laws, the math is the correct interpretation,
anything else is philosophy.




More troubling, It suggests we know all we need to know about
gravity and inertia and an eperiment like this that
localises the energy where it is hard to model and measure
is completly unwelcome if it challenges existing fromalism:

<< We report the first realization of a guided quasicontinuous
atom laser by rf outcoupling a Bose-Einstein condensate
from a hybrid optomagnetic trap into a horizontal atomic
waveguide. This configuration allows us to cancel the
acceleration due to gravity and keep the de Broglie
wavelength constant at 0.5 $\mu$m during 0.1 s
of propagation.

We also show that our configuration, equivalent to pigtailing
an optical fiber to a (photon) semiconductor laser, ensures
an intrinsically good transverse mode matching. >>http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607438

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