A 1994 paper "BEYOND E=mc2 " by Bernard Haisch, Alfonso Rueda & H.E. Puthoff http://www.calphysics.org/haisch/sciences.html lends support to my posit of relativistic vacuum fluctuations moving at the speed of light but the present description of this trembling motion called zitterbewegung does not assign a vector to the motion. The Present interpretation is a sea of virtual particles/vacuum flux which are constantly winking into and out of physical existence. The accumulation of gravity as described by this theory would necessitate that this sea is intersecting with all 3 spatial axis at 90 degrees because it has no spatial bias unless you accelerate relative to it on a specific vector. The Gamma formula does indeed reflect an equal Pythagorean relationship to an object approaching C on any spatial vector. Relativity and time dilation prove that we are unable to observe any change in this rate of intersection which by nature will always appear to be C whether we are in open space or deep in the gravity well of a black hole, our reality is scaled to the local vacuum energy density. My point is that zitterbewegung is not the same virtual particles winking into and out of existence over and over again but rather a moving stream of virtual particles travelling from the future to the past. This stream only becomes physical long enough to pass through the Present and has a rate proportional to energy density. Hence a neo Lorentzian ether where there is no etheric wind such as M&M pursued because the relative motion is constant to all 3 axis. This is related to my new blog "The Primary Objection to Relativistic Interpretation of Casimir Effect" http://froarty.scienceblog.com/32169/primary-objection-to-relativistic-inter pretation-of-casimir-effect/ Regards Fran
[snip from paper] In 1989 the idea was taken up by one of us (Puthoff) and formulated within the framework of stochastic electrodynamics into a preliminary but quantifiable, nonrelativistic representation of Newtonian gravitation. The underlying principle is remarkably intuitive. If a charged particle is subjected to ZPF interactions, it will be forced to fluctuate in response to the random jostlings of the electromagnetic waves of the ZPF. Moreover, since the ZPF is all-pervasive, charged particles everywhere in the universe will be forced to fluctuate. Now a basic result from classical electrodynamics is that a fluctuating electric charge emits an electromagnetic radiation field. The result is that all charges in the universe will emit secondary electromagnetic fields in response to their interactions with the primary field, the ZPF. The secondary electromagnetic fields turn out to have a remarkable property. Between any two particles they give rise to an attractive force. The force is much weaker than the ordinary attractive or repulsive forces between two stationary electric charges, and it is always attractive, whether the charges are positive or negative. The result is that the secondary fields give rise to an attractive force we propose may be identified with gravity. It is important to note that the fluctuations are relativistic - that is, the charges move at velocities at or close to the speed of light. The energy associated with the fluctuations - which for historical reasons is given the German name zitterbewegung, or trembling movement - is interpreted as the energy equivalent of gravitational rest mass. Since the gravitational force is caused by the trembling motion, there is no need to speak any longer of a gravitational mass as the source of gravitation. [/snip from paper]
