| dc.contributor.author | Giné, Jaume | |
| dc.contributor.author | McCulloch, M. E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-04T11:57:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-01T22:29:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0217-7323 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/58386 | |
| dc.description.abstract | It has been proposed that inertia can be explained as follows: when objects accelerate in one direction a Rindler horizon forms in the other direction, suppressing Unruh radiation on that side, and producing a net Unruh radiation pressure that always opposes the acceleration, just like inertia. So far this model has predicted masses over twice those expected. In this paper an error in this model is corrected so that its prediction improves to within 29\% of the expected Planck mass. It is also shown that inertial mass may be understood qualitatively by applying Carnot's principle and entropy to Unruh temperatures, so that the work needed for inertia comes from the difference in the Unruh temperatures seen by the accelerated object and the cosmos. This implies that highly-accelerated systems may emit heat in a new way. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The first author is partially supported by a MINECO/ FEDER grant number
MTM2014-53703-P and an AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya) grant
number 2014SGR 1204. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | World Scientific Publishing | |
| dc.relation | MINECO/PN2013-2016/MTM2014-53703-P | |
| dc.relation.isformatof | Versió postprint del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732316501078 | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Modern Physics Letters A, 2016, vol. 31, num. 17, p. 1650107-1650107 | |
| dc.rights | (c) World Scientific Publishing, 2016 | |
| dc.subject | Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | Unruh radiation | |
| dc.subject | Hubble-scale Casimir effect | |
| dc.subject | Inertial mass | |
| dc.title | Inertial mass from Unruh temperatures | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-11-04T11:57:42Z | |
| dc.identifier.idgrec | 024515 | |
| dc.type.version | acceptedVersion | |
| dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732316501078 | |
