[General] a quantitative measure of inertia (not inertial mass)

[Richard Gauthier]

Chip and David,
    I’ve been working an article expanding the idea of the origin of the electron’s inertia that I introduced in my short article on this on academia.edu. I want to complete it more or less and polish it a bit over the next week or so and then put in on Academia.edu and hopefully get comments on it, from you both as well as from any of the other “nature of light and particles" folks. I’m proposing a basic quantitative measure of the inertia of the electron that is different from its inertial mass, and from which its inertial mass is derived quantitatively. The quantitative measure of inertia covers both the resting and the relativistically moving electron. As a side benefit it also gives the photon an inertial mass E/c^2 (this is controversial in inertia literature but is accepted by Martin in “Light is Heavy"), even though the photon doesn’t have any rest mass. I haven’t settled on a title yet. Currently it’s “The electron’s inertia is its total momentum”. That might generate some interest and curiousity: “That's dumb, what about a resting electron whose momentum is zero? It obviously still has inertia.” The key idea is TOTAL momentum, internal plus external. Another possible title is “The origin of the electron's inertia based on the spin 1/2 charged photon model of the electron.”  ho hum, maybe a bit too long...
      Richard