On the super-fluid property of the relativistic physical vacuum medium and the inertial motion of particles

Abstract

The similarity between the energy spectra of relativistic particles and that of quasi-particles in super-conductivity BCS theory makes us conjecture that the relativistic physical vacuum medium as the ground state of the background field is a super fluid medium, and the rest mass of a relativistic particle is like the energy gap of a quasi-particle. This conjecture is strongly supported by the results of our following investigation: a particle moving through the vacuum medium at a speed less than the speed of light in vacuum, though interacting with the vacuum medium, never feels friction force and thus undergoes a frictionless and inertial motion. The profound and intrinsic relationship between the super fluid property of the relativistic physical vacuum medium and the energy-momentum conservation law as well as the relativistic energy-momentum dispersion relation or the principle of relativity, can be established.