Hi everybody, here is a theory of mine about mass.
While trying to imagine how two identical atoms could perceive themselves and act from this perception, I fist had to assume #1 that they were continuously emitting light, #2 that they were both emitting their pulses at the same frequency, and #3 that they could compare those together, which meant for me #4 that they had to be synchronized at the origin, and #5 that they had to act to stay so since then.
Then, I took the place of one of the two atoms of a molecule, and I observed what would happen if the other atom would undergo a tiny push in my direction. While moving towards me, this atom would lose its synchronism because of the doppler effect, so that to recover it, it would not only have to resist to the push, but it would also stop moving as soon as the push would have ceased. When the light pulses from this push would catch me, they would look shortened because of the same doppler effect, and I would have to accelerate in the same direction than them to stretch them, thus while going away from the other atom, then stop moving as soon as there would be no more doppler effect, so as to stay synchronized with the pulses. So doing, my own pulses would stretch in the direction of the other atom, and when they would catch it, he too would have to accelerate to stay synchronized but this time, in an opposite direction from them, thus to stretch them while getting closer to me, and he should also end by stopping its pace when no doppler effect would show. Because of our interaction not being instantaneous, and to be able to stay synchronized, we would thus have to follow each other constantly while moving in the same direction as our original push. Observed from far away, we would appear to be in constant motion, but from closer and in slow motion, we would be moving step by step one after the other in a "measuring worm" way.
What struck me in this simple mass principle, is that it explains more than how a body resists to its acceleration: in the same token, but in an unexpected way, it also explains inertial motion. You like?
Here is a small animation of those tiny steps:
http://www.imabox.fr/a1/1330012244GUqjJs19.swf