On the Essence of Gravitation and Inertia Part 1

Shlomo Barak (1)

1 Taga Innovations

Masses (elementary particles) curve space positively. They sense (are affected by) curvature, created by other masses, and move accordingly. How, specifically, this occurs, is an open issue, as is the issue of inertia. Our elementary particle model, presented here, enables us to resolve these issues, show mass to be merely a practicality, and prove Newton's First and Second Laws. We show that contraction (curving) of space by a mass (GR’s gravitation) creates a gradient in light velocity. A particle senses this gradient and is forced to free fall. This free fall is wrongly considered to be the result of attraction between masses. We also prove Newton’s Law of Gravitation and the equivalence of gravitational and inertial masses.. Part 2 of this paper shows that the spin of a particle induces space torsion that results in space contraction (positive curving) which is GR's gravitation.

Mots clés: Gravitation; Free fall; Elementary particle; Inertia; Dark Matter

Domaines: Relativité Générale et Cosmologie Quantique [gr-qc]

Shlomo Barak. On the Essence of Gravitation and Inertia Part 1: Inertia and Free Fall of an Elementary Particle. 2017. ⟨hal-01404143v5⟩