1 The Four Principal Kinetic States of Material Bodies

A thorough examination of the fundamental principles of inertial and gravitational kinetics is performed to discover the underlying relational characteristics of the two different physical behaviors. By isolating the specific behavioral characteristics of inertia and gravity into the four kinetic states that appear to define such behaviors it is possible to compare the two forces in precise detail and determine the fundamental underlying nature of the relationships that exist between them. The results of such examination as presented in this work provides conditional support for Newton’s universal law of gravitation based on such relational comparison but fails to support the inertial gravitational equivalence principle of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Another aspect of the general theory, the warping of space time by massive bodies, is left untouched for the present time. A final consequence of the discoveries presented is the formulation of time based and distance based Newtonian and relativistic mathematical programming models for gravitational acceleration that provide powerful new analytical tools for use in future investigations