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Old 10-December-2004, 09:36 AM
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Default Re: Potential Threat to the Huygen Mission

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Originally Posted by Jerry
I am hypothesizing the equivalence principle is wrong: Inertia is not intrinsic in matter but a function of the total electromagnetic mass.
You are hypothesizing against all the experimental evidence (as I already pointed out in the ATM thread).
And, they already tried to blame electromagnetism for inertia: it does not work (have a look at Feynman's Lectures).
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