Emulating Rest Inertia of Mass with a Photon in a Rotational System

Abstract

This paper investigates how a photon with rotational energy in a closed system can exhibit inertia similar to the rest inertia of mass. Specifically, we show that the combined energy of a photon held in a spherical container, with rotational energy considered, can create a resistance to radial forces analogous to how matter behaves with rest inertia. We find that when calculating the wavelength of the photon required to yield the mass and radius of a proton, the result agrees nearly perfectly with the relation for standing waves contained in a closed sphere, where the expected wavelength is equal to twice the radius of the container according to spherical cavity resonator models.