Session UB10 - Gravitational Theory II.
ORAL session, Thursday morning, March 25
Room 217E, GWCC
The centrally symmetrical momentum field of radiation around a point-like locally isotropic source undergoes an axisymmetric transformation due to Special Relativistic Doppler shift when seen by a moving observer. In order to keep the source force-free, we must assigns to it a nonlinear velocity-dependent momentum vector determined by this transformation. A novel concept, Radiation-Induced Mass (RIM), is introduced, and equivalence of the derived mass term with the relativistic m = \gamma m_0 is proved. It is shown that the gravitational mass of any particle with non-zero rest mass is not a constant at all distances and that the Machian approach to inertia as that employed in Einstein's General Relativity is incorrect. The new mass-term is used to predict the correct density profiles for a number of objects at various size scales such as the galaxies within CL0024+1654 cluster and the Milky Way. It is shown that there exists a universal constant \kappa = 0.16 kpc^-1 which relates to the inverse wavelength of the weak electromagnetic field responsible for gravitational interactions. Finally, the gravitational mass associated with this non-thermal field is shown to illuminate the nature of the so-called cosmological dark matter.