Can Negating Inertia Grant Special Abilities?

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Negating inertia could theoretically allow a person to accelerate to light speed instantly or create movement through negative inertia, where a particle moves away when pulled. However, this concept raises complex issues in physics, as removing inertia without a replacement could disrupt fundamental laws. The discussion highlights that without a clear understanding of how to substitute inertia and its relationship with force, gravity, and momentum, the implications remain speculative. The idea of achieving massless movement, akin to the behavior of photons, is also mentioned. Ultimately, the exploration of negating inertia leads to more questions than definitive answers.
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Hey all, I am new here, so if this question I am about to ask sounds stupid, please go easy on me.

Anyhow, even though I know this is unrealistic, I am curious about this one thing, and I hope you can help me out by answering this question I am about to give:

If someone (anyone) could completely negate their inertia (Newton's first law and such), what special abilities would be granted to that person?

Anyway, to those who answer, thanks.
 
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Your question is much more complicated than you might think, since physics is a big machine where removing one piece will make the whole thing break down, unless you replace it with something else.
If you are talking about 0 inertia and we forget quite a few problems that come with it then any force will accelerate you to light speed instantly. If you are talking about negative inertia, then you have a particle that moves away when you try to pull it close, this can be used as a motor because just pulling something like this will move you forward.
But you already see perpetuum mobile stuff going on... so the best answer is, unless you know exactly what you want to replace inertia with and how it ties into the idea of force, gravity, and quantum mechanical momentum, there is no good answer.
 
What immediately comes off the top of my head is you basically having massless "particles". We know such particles, ie. photons and gluons for example, all travel at the speed of light.
 
So I know that electrons are fundamental, there's no 'material' that makes them up, it's like talking about a colour itself rather than a car or a flower. Now protons and neutrons and quarks and whatever other stuff is there fundamentally, I want someone to kind of teach me these, I have a lot of questions that books might not give the answer in the way I understand. Thanks
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