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Range of feline effective gravitational mass modulation

Determine whether felines can vary their effective passive gravitational mass within the interval from 0 to 2m, where m denotes their nominal mass.

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Background

Within the MOFEGD framework, the cat’s internal state ψ modulates a dimensionless factor κ(ψ) that rescaled the gravitational response, effectively changing the passive gravitational mass from 0 up to approximately twice the nominal mass. This is encoded in the Newtonian force law modification and leads to explicit violation of the weak equivalence principle, while keeping inertial mass fixed.

The paper links this specific range to observed behaviors (e.g., apparent levitation and anomalously heavy appearances) and further develops a relativistic scalar-field coupling that could reproduce such modulation. Establishing the quantitative bounds would be a key empirical test of MOFEGD.

References

More specifically, we conjecture that felines manipulate their effective gravitational mass between 0 and $2m$ where $m$ is their nominal mass.

Feline gravity manipulation (2503.22919 - Toth, 29 Mar 2025) in Section 1 (Introduction)