Weak-Equivalence Principle Violation and Mass Change of Charged Matter Due to Vacuum Polarization

• Main Author: Tajmar, Martin
• Other Authors: American Scientific Publishers,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2016
• Subjects: gravitationspolarisation; Vakuumpolarisation; Äquivalenzprinzip; gravitational polarization; vacuum polarization; weak equivalence principle; ddc:530; rvk:UX 1300
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-197185; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-197185; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/19718/Weak-Equivalence_Principle_Violation_and_Mass_Change_of_%20Charged_Matter_due_to_Vacuum_Polarization.pdf

Vacuum polarization by electric fields is a well established fact. Assuming that anti-matter has negative gravitational properties, the fluctating electric dipoles from the quantum vacuum may also have gravitational dipolar properties. A model is developed that describes how electric fields could gravitationally polarize the vacuum causing gravitational screening or anti-screening effects. This leads to a violation of the Weak Equivalence Principle or a general mass change most notabily for elementary particles, such as the electron or positron, below but close to measured boundaries. Also a gravitational vacuum torque is predicted to act on a charged capacitor perpendicular to a gravitational field. The predictions could be verified by future laboratory experiments that could contribute on our understanding of the gravitational properties of anti-matter.