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A possible relationship between the zero-point field of the quantum vac-uum and the origin of inertia is investigated. The zero-point field (ZPF)is a random, homogeneous, and isotropic electromagnetic field that existseven at the temperature of absolute zero, and its energy density spectrumis Lorentz invariant. Following the approach by Rueda and Haisch (Found.of Phys. Vol. 28, 1057, (1998)), the vacuum expectation value of the ZPFPoynting vector corresponding to the field energy being swept through bythe accelerated object per unit time per unit area is evaluated. Here the ob-ject is under uniform acceleration, or constant proper acceleration which isknown as hyperbolic motion. From this Poynting vector, we can further eval-uate the momentum of the background fields the object has swept through asseen from the laboratory frame, and this momentum can then be used to findthe force exerted on an accelerated object by the ZPF. This approach hadthe advantage of avoiding the model dependence used previously by Haisch,Rueda, and Puthoff (Phvs. Rev. A 49, 678, (1994)).Although, in their analysis, Rueda and Haisch used the clmsicnl stochas-tic electromagnetic zero-point field, in the present research, the q~~nnttrm..,..tested for theQ1 PC1 bus cardBoth these projects mere sofixare des elopment efforts tonards contributing to dlfferentaspects of Roboucs and lZ1echatronics projects m the Controls and Roboucs Group..
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