Inquiry About Inertia: What Causes It?

[GarryS]

What is the cause of Inertia?

 

[A.T.]

What is the cause of Inertia?

What is the cause of the need for a cause?

 

[Naty1]

I just read this two minutes ago while reseaching the "standard kilogram"... so I'll post it here for reference:

The kilogram is a unit of mass, the measurement of which corresponds to the general, everyday notion of how “heavy” something is. Physically speaking, mass is an inertial property; that is, the tendency of an object to remain at constant velocity unless acted upon by an outside force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram#Stability_of_the_international_prototype_kilogram

What is the cause of mass? forces? time? gravity? nobody really knows...it's a characteristic of our universe...and without any of them we'd not be here to observe and question. We can't even figure out yet why we have the fundamental particles that we observe.

 

[GarryS]

What is the cause of the need for a cause?

Ha Ha Ha Ha...