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Article The vacuum friction paradox and related puzzles
The frequency of light emitted by a moving source is shifted by a factor proportional to its velocity. We find that this Doppler shift requires the existence of a paradoxical effect: that a moving atom radiating in otherwise empty space feels a net or average force acting against its direction motion and proportional in magnitude to is speed. Yet there is no preferred rest frame, either in relativity or in Newtonian mechanics, so how can there be a vacuum friction force?
Article Vacuum Friction
It is verified that the frequency shift of light of an object travelling at v speed is
1/(1-beta)gamma, where beta=v/c and gamma =(1-beta2)-1/2
An atom which emits (or absorbs) a photon undergoes a recoil which modifies its status of rest/motion.
In the case of the Doppler effect this recoil should not occur, since the emitter and the receiver are postulated to be inertial.
Or rather the RDE is related to the intertiality of both receiver and observer and in such case neither the receiver nor the observer will face any alteration of their status of motion.
It is the case to point out that this feature of being Inertial is in open violation with the conservation of energy:
the frequency of quanta of radiation, bouncing between approaching reflectors will incease indefinitely more and more while the two reflectors approach, making the energy of the photons infinite as measured in each reference frame. So in any case another paradox arises...
The vacuum friction force should not exist if the RDE is considered, but at the same time if it does not exist, RDE infringes the conservation laws...
The indefinite approach prove that there is friction otherwise how do you explain conservation of energy. Take in the beginning friction between gases and conservation laws related to speeds, energy and friction created everything we see. So even RDF is a contradiction, everything else tells us that vacuum friction exists.
If you look at it, inertia can cause vacuum. But remain to prove: is it truly the friction force. I do think this way; if inertia creates heat then heat for sure will create vacuum from one side and forces that change the substances under interactions. Will the vacuum counter balance these forces to respect the law of equilibrium and thus we have the cause as inertia. Something to think about.
There is no friction force at all, there is something which may have some similar features, but for sure no dissipation...
If there is no friction force at all, how you explain traveling light and bending. Planets form through friction and the must have came from somewhere
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