Isaac Newton's "inertia" simply does not exist. In short, Newton's "inertia" is imaginary. While Newton did make an effort to define his misunderstanding of "inertia", I find it curious that seldom if ever did he use "inertia" as a component in the explanation of the hundreds of events he described in his various works. Perhaps he included his "inertia" definition in PRINCIPIA due to his feeling pressured by a general expectation as to a "cause" for an object's uniform motion. That might explain Newton's ironic choice of words when he referred to "inertia" as the "force of inactivity" as if he thought a forceful "cause" was needed for the maintenance of a uniformly moving object's causeless default state of inactive rest-motion.
Is Galileo Galilei the Father of Inertia?
Physics authors often refer to Galileo as originating the concept of inertia. Curiously I have found no mention of any such concept within Galileo's many works. What I have found is that Galileo clearly recognized that in the absence of an acceleration/Action force, an object has no choice but to continue on with its motion unchanged. In the words of Professor Stillman Drake, a noted authority on the life and work of Galileo, "Galileo never asserted any vis inertiae or "force of inactivity" as Newton did." In his discussion of the issue, Drake went on to say "Many blame Galileo for his inability to invent inertia-..." Now that we see that "inertia" does not exist, we are free to recognize it is to Galileo's credit that he had no part in imaginary "inertia's" invention [3].
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