The Matter Field Equations

Abstract

One of the earliest observed manifestations of matter was its inertia. In the ancient Greek period, Aristotle considered the cause for the continuity of motion of the heavenly bodies. He reasoned that it must be that one body, at one place in space, moves faster than another body, at another place, because the faster moving body has more intrinsic impetus for motion, due to its particular location in space, compared with the impetus of the slower moving body. For example, the planet that we live on is at such a place in space that it should not move at all. It was this impetus, determined by the location of a body in space, that keeps it moving at some speed or another. This was Aristotle’s ‘inertia’ for a material body.