What is inertia?

Hidden from everyone and overlooked by physicists,
the ONE-NESS REALITY of inertia
is in physics split into a FATAL MATHEMATICAL DUALITY!

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The inertia law or Newton's first law

   Any object in the state of rest or in the state of uniform motion, remains at rest or in uniform motion, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

The inertia law is in conflict with constant spin

   A spinning object such as a top or the earth is not in uniform motion, because it constantly changes direction. As such constant spinning is not taken care of by the inertia law. Note that due to friction the spinning of the toy is slowed down and actually not constant. Similarly due to the moon, which causes the tides, Earth’s spin is slowed down through friction of water flows. Friction though, and not inertia, causes the slowing. Inertia is a heavy weight in physics!

Physics solution

   In order to comply with nature, physicists created a new law differing from the inertia law! The new law involves angular speed, angular momentum and rotational inertia!

The duality of inertia (in physics)

   These angular and rotational entities were specifically invented because constant spin is not taken care of by the inertia law.
   Clearly, should the inertia law describe constant spin, these new mathematical entities would not be needed!
   Now there are two drastically differing mathematical descriptions of inertia in physics.
   The irony is that the rotational inertia has been invented by analogy to the inertia law!

The one-ness of inertia (in reality)

   In our minds we can only imagine the reality of inertia as being one. As a matter of fact physicists did not invent a new word to label the inertia that maintains constant spin. Physicists only gave it the rotational adjective. There is only one inertia in Reality.

Inertia's mathematical duality might be physics' biggest blunder

   Borrowing Einstein’s famous word, because mass along with inertia is at the base of all of physics, physics' duality of inertia is a blunder!
   The whole mathematical edifice of physics is now based on two differing pillars the duality of which compromises the unity of any subsequent buildup no matter how elaborate or clever!
GRAVIMOTION frankly tampers with inertia!
In GRAVIMOTION, inertia becomes alive and is intricately involved
in the phenomenon of motion!



Click here for Gravimotion's elegant solution to inertia's dilemma


The controversy doesn't compromise the respect we have for physics

   This web-page is based on the belief that the unity of Nature can only be explained in a united way.
   Physics, which goal is to describe doesn't have to comply, even though the aspiration is to get to a Grand Unified Theory.
   Physics’ descriptions of reality remain exquisitely accurate; an accuracy that gravimotion is far from achieving!
   Besides, the ideas expressed here, could not have popped up out of nothing! The roots of gravimotion have to be embedded in the science of physics!

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