ZP OWER C ORPORATION PAGE OF 352 Z ERO P OINT E NERGY ESE to adjust to the system, even though the gradient associated with the system allows the impact on distant ESE to be nil at a great distance and the uniform motion of a non-accelerating body to occur without resistance. Acceleration and Inertia Just as gravity has two components in my model, so does inertia. The passive component is described by Newton's first law of motion "An entity will continue at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line, unless a force acts upon it" Cause and Effect require that all entities behave thus. This component has nothing to do with mass and applies to light and Einstein Spatial Ether as well as to massive bodies. The activeGeneral Relativity. This component is due to a displacement between a gravitational body (mass or sink) and its own gravitational field. Linear Inertia and Acceleration During stationary or uniform motion the mass remains in the center of its own gravitational field. Cause and Effect dictate that this be so as the field is the sink's creation. Thus, mass does not experience its own field during uniform motion. But when a gravitational body (mass or sink) is accelerated there is a time lag between when it and its associated field adjust to the new situation. The result is that the mass will traverse and experience apart of its own gravitational field, which will attempt to restore the mass to its central place in the system. I owe this insight to Petr Beckmann's book Einstein Plus Two in which he describes a similar processes associated with electromagnetic inertia. He notes that the field about stationary charge or a charge in uniform motion is frozen to it and such a charge does not feel its own field, whereas an accelerated charge catches up to or crosses (my words) and feels its own field. Beckmann uses this dynamic in his analysis of the orbital mechanics of charged particles and Quantum Mechanics. Because we do not understand how forces other than gravity operate, we will examine this process from two perspectives and get the same result. Graphic will soon be provided that illustrate these concepts)