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Existence of Inertia In the Singularity

Incidentally, a question popped up in my mind. What if inertia didn't exist?

Before we divebomb into this philosophical exploration (It is philosophical as such, because it is backed
only by mindful speculation and manipulation of definitions rather than conclusive scientific research or
mathematical proofs), let's look at the definition of inertia itself:

A body's natural property to resist a change in its state of motion.

So - what if there wasn't inertia? Then objects wouldn't oppose a change in state of motion. In fact, if we
think about it, the smallest of forces could send objects shooting away at magnanimous speeds. But, if
you attempt to inspect the very relation between force and acceleration - you see that the very reason
we require force to induce an acceleration is the presence of inertia. The body doesn't wish to move -
we make it move with a force. Hereby, removing inertia, there is no limit to the acceleration a body can
achieve with a given force. In fact, you may not even need a force to do so. Objects would go shooting
around the universe in every direction (no inertia to prevent directional change)(the same object).
Initially, I thought we could define the upper limit as c (speed of light), but that contradicts the fact that
absence of inertia allows unbounded acceleration.

Thus, to find a workaround (bad word - solution maybe), we have to look at the object that travels at c -
light itself. Observation of light near blackholes, and bodies which exert huge amounts of gravitational
force show that light bends when near such bodies. But, why? Light is massless, right? Essentially it
shouldn't have inertia, right?

Wrong. With mathematical proof using special relativity, it has been proven that light has momentum.
What is momentum - an objective measure of a body's inertia. The greater its momentum, the more
difficult it is to bring about a change in its state of motion. Thus, we found out that light has momentum
- an objective measure of inertia, and since that value is not 0, we can thus prove light has inertia, and
resists change in state of motion.

Therefore, in absence of inertia, c is no longer the upper limit of speed. Thus, we can lay to rest the
conflict of infinite acceleration. In fact, there is no longer an upper limit of speed - but if you want to
give it one - it is infinity.
So, maximum speed attainable by a physical body is infinity. If we assume the universe is curved, an
object moving at infinite speed should return to its initial position. But we also found out that in absence
of inertia, every particle travels in every direction. Thus, velocity is infinite.

If we observe this phenomenon from another universe, we can see that every body present in the
universe without inertia is in a state of superposition - it's in its every possible state at every point of
time.

Reminds you of something?

The singularity.

There is no inertia in the singularity - proved.

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