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dc.contributor.authorMelia, F.
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-09T21:27:55Z
dc.date.available2021-09-09T21:27:55Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationMelia, F. (2021). The origin of rest-mass energy. European Physical Journal C, 81(8).
dc.identifier.issn1434-6044
dc.identifier.doi10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09506-w
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/661464
dc.description.abstractToday we have a solid, if incomplete, physical picture of how inertia is created in the standard model. We know that most of the visible baryonic ‘mass’ in the Universe is due to gluonic back-reaction on accelerated quarks, the latter of which attribute their own inertia to a coupling with the Higgs field – a process that elegantly and self-consistently also assigns inertia to several other particles. But we have never had a physically viable explanation for the origin of rest-mass energy, in spite of many attempts at understanding it towards the end of the nineteenth century, culminating with Einstein’s own landmark contribution in his Annus Mirabilis. Here, we introduce to this discussion some of the insights we have garnered from the latest cosmological observations and theoretical modeling to calculate our gravitational binding energy with that portion of the Universe to which we are causally connected, and demonstrate that this energy is indeed equal to mc2 when the inertia m is viewed as a surrogate for gravitational mass. © 2021, The Author(s).
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
dc.rightsCopyright © The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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dc.titleThe origin of rest-mass energy
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dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Physics, University of Arizona
dc.contributor.departmentThe Applied Math Program, University of Arizona
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Astronomy, University of Arizona
dc.identifier.journalEuropean Physical Journal C
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dc.source.journaltitleEuropean Physical Journal C
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