| | Rest & Mass-energy in Pluralistic Parcellular Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | This zero-point motion of true rest is by definition the state of zero energy, equivalent to the zero-point energy of the quantum vacuum - which we therefore discover to be naturally a component of the quantity "rest mass". |
 | | In other words, rest mass (or rest momentum) is a complex function of positive and negative quantities, respectively like a kinetic energy and a vacuum energy, which latter is in quantum field theory held to reside in an unbounded flux of virtual particles. |
 | | The minima of potential and kinetic energy therefore are co-located in the case of (so-called) free gravitating systems, as with any simple pendulum; but neither curve is in fact interrupted at their mutual intersection, and the zero-point energy of true rest is where the phase of spacetime inverts through a rotation into anti-spacetime. |
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