inertia (ĭ-nûr'shə) n. [Latin, idleness, from iners, inert-, inert.]
inertial in·er'tial adj.
inertially in·er'tial·ly adv.

Definition: disinclination to move; lifelessness
Antonyms: activity, animation, energy, life, liveliness, moving

So many fail because they don't get started — they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. —W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur.

Inertia is a tendency to do nothing or remind unchanged.  I am anti-inertia.

With so much ignorance surrounding us, and me specifically, I had to start writing.  Writing in hopes of disseminating information —my points of view.  People simply do not want to move.   They do not want to think.   They are happy with blissful ignorance; unfortunately.

Well ... I want to move.  I want to change the World around me; and this is my humble baby-step at doing just that.

A little about me, the author:

I care not to share my name; otherwise, I'm simply a google away from being judged, stereotyped, etc.  I wish to keep my digital and actual personas separate from each other.

The topics, insinuations and even language at times covered in this blog are likely to offend and shake things up amongst some people ... starting with my own.  So who am I?  I'm a 1st generation Muslim American of Arabic descent.   I speak both Arabic and English fluently (yes, without much of an accent in either).  That's all that needs to be known.

I ask that you, the reader, respect my opinions as if they were your own; and open your mind to the possibility, and fact, that there are different opinions than those of your own ... wrong, indifferent or otherwise, it's simply irrelevant.  As I also ask you, dear reader, to question, challenge and comment on my posts.  If you don't learn anything from my posts, perhaps I can learn something from your feedback.   Be courteous and respectful, both to myself and to others.  Many of the words in this blog are likely to be subject of search terms, which could lead the young and impressionable.

As for what you could call me ... Call me Anti-inertiatic  —This is the 1st step at me not being still.

A different perspective on the history of inertia (from answers.com)

Several Muslim scientists from the Islamic world wrote Arabic treatises on theories of motion that are considered precursors to the law of inertia. In the early 11th century, the Iraqi Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhacen) experimented on the motion of a body and discovered that a body moves perpetually unless an external force stops it or changes its direction of motion. Alhacen's theory of motion was thus similar to the modern law of inertia (now known as Newton's first law of motion) later stated by Galileo Galilei in the 16th century.[1]

Alhacen's contemporary, the Persian scientist Ibn Sina (Latinized as Avicenna), developed a more elaborate theory of motion, in which he made a distinction between the inclination and force of a projectile, and concluded that motion was a result of an inclination (mayl) transferred to the projectile by the thrower, and that projectile motion in a vacuum would not cease.[2] He viewed inclination as a permanent force whose effect is dissipated by external forces such as air resistance.[3] His theory of motion was thus consistent with Newton's concept of inertia.[2] Avicenna also referred to mayl to as being proportional to weight times velocity, which was similar to Newton's theory of momentum.[4] Avicenna's concept of mayl was later used in Jean Buridan's theory of impetus.

The first scientist to reject Aristotle's idea that a constant force produces uniform motion was Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi in the early 12th century. He was the first to argue that a force applied continuously produces acceleration, a fundamental law of classical mechanics.[5]


[1]   Abdus Salam (1984), "Islam and Science". In C. H. Lai (1987), Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam, 2nd ed., World Scientific, Singapore, p. 179-213.

[2]  Fernando Espinoza (2005). "An analysis of the historical development of ideas about motion and its implications for teaching", Physics Education 40 (2), p. 141.

[3]  A. Sayili (1987), "Ibn Sīnā and Buridan on the Motion of the Projectile", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 500 (1), p. 477–482:

    "It was a permanent force whose effect got dissipated only as a result of external agents such as air resistance. He is apparently the first to conceive such a permanent type of impressed virtue for non-natural motion."

[4]  A. Sayili (1987), "Ibn Sīnā and Buridan on the Motion of the Projectile", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 500 (1), p. 477–482:

    "Thus he considered impetus as proportional to weight times velocity. In other words, his conception of impetus comes very close to the concept of momentum of Newtonian mechanics."

[5]  Pines, Shlomo (1970). "Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī , Hibat Allah". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 26-28. ISBN 0684101149.
(cf. Abel B. Franco (October 2003). "Avempace, Projectile Motion, and Impetus Theory", Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (4), p. 521-546 [528].)