Misc,
On the nature of spin, inertia and gravity of a moving canonical particle
(March 2001)
Abstract
It is suggested that a moving canonical particle interacts with a vacuum
regarded as a "soft" cellular space. The interaction results into the emergence
of elementary excitations of space - inertons - surrounding the particle. It is
assumed that such a motion leads not only to the spatial oscillation of the
particle along a path but to the oscillation of the particle centre-of-mass as
well. This phenomenon culminating in the anisotropic pulsation of the particle
is associated with the notion of spin. The particle-space interaction is
treated as the origin of the matter waves, which are identified with the
particle inertia and inertons surrounding the moving particle are considered as
carriers of its inert properties. Inertons are also identified with real
carriers of the gravitational interaction and the range of the particle
gravitational potential is evaluated by the inerton cloud amplitude
$Łambda=c/v$, where $łambda$ is the de Broglie wavelength, $c$ and
$v$ are the velocity of light and the particle respectively. The nature of the
phase transition that occurs in a quantum system when one should pass from the
description based on the Schroedinger formalism to that of resting on the Dirac
one is explained in detail.
