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Gravitational and Inertial Mass

Authors: Vincenzo Nardozza

Newtonian Gravitational fields have no kinetic energy. If they had, a moving mass would make fields variate around it and would give kinetic energy to space. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that the energy of those varying fields could be responsible for the kinetic energy of a mass. To do that we have slightly modified Newtonian gravity to give kinetic energy to the fields and we have found that the integral of the kinetic energy of the varying fields around a moving mass is exactly (1/2)mv^2.This leads somehow to the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass because the very same fields responsible for masses to attract each other, are the same fields that give inertia to a mass.

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[v1] 2024-06-17 12:49:54
[v2] 2024-09-26 17:57:50
[v3] 2025-01-14 23:12:22

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