The Energy–Mass Duality and the FEMT Model

Abstract

This chapter aims to show how a critical analysis using the older concepts of physics may be able to lend useful insights into some of the currently unanswered questions of the nature of the universe. It uses the Einstein energy–mass relation as the fundamental relation for postulating the conversion of energy to mass. The Fundamental Energy–Mass Transformation (FEMT) model uses pair production in the presence of electromagnetic fields to postulate its first form. This is generalized to a force of a general nature in its second form.The model is next employed to investigate the possible nature of dark energy. This is achieved by considering the force field in the model to be the gravitational field, and investigating the outcome when a gravitational wave passes through the strong gravitational field of a black hole. The pair of particles that are produced are called mass/anti-mass particles to differentiate them from the pair formed in the electromagnetic case. Investigation of the nature of anti-mass shows that such particles will aggregate into larger massive bodies and repel normal mass.