Inertia as Phase Resistance in MID/QC develops a substrate‑level account of inertial behavior as resistance to rapid reconfiguration of phase‑coherent structure within the MID field. Instead of treating inertia as an intrinsic property of matter, the paper models it as the phase‑locking resistance that arises when a coherent mode is forced to shift its orientation or gradient relative to the surrounding substrate. The work formalizes phase resistance as a dynamical tension opposing acceleration, derives the relationship between coherence geometry and inertial magnitude, and shows how inertial response emerges naturally from the substrate’s reluctance to deform its phase‑aligned configuration. This framework links inertia directly to mass and gravitational behavior, completing the triad of tension‑based dynamics that anchor Wave 1 of the MID/QC program.
Chadwick D Rasque (Fri,) studied this question.