A Brief Summary of Electromagnetic Quantum Gravity

Abstract

We briefly review the current status of a new quantum gravity theory called Electro-Magnetic Quantum Gravity. EMQG is manifestly compatible with Cellular Automata (CA) theory, and is based on a new theory of inertia proposed by R. Haisch, A. Rueda, and H. Puthoff. Newtonian Inertia is due to the strictly local, electrical force interactions of matter particles (consisting of real electrically charged fermions) with the surrounding, electrically charged, virtual fermion particles of the quantum vacuum. The force originates from each charged fermion particle of the mass undergoing relative acceleration with the the quantum vacuum particles. The sum of all these tiny electrical forces originating from each electrically charged particle in the mass is the source of the total inertial force of a mass, which is the force that opposes accelerated motion in Newton's famous inertia law 'F = MA'. Gravity also involves the same 'inertial' electrical force component that exists for inertial mass described above. The Weak Equivalence Principle turns out to be a physical phenomenon, originating from common 'lower level' quantum processes in both gravitational and inertial mass. The magnitude of the gravitational mass of a test mass on the earth results from the same quantity of electrical force interactions as in inertia, but on the earth it is the virtual fermions of the quantum vacuum that are actually accelerating downward (on a statistical average basis) with respect to the test mass.