If energy is stored in matter as a widening of electron orbits, then energy must necessarily be transferred from one object to another in order to create acceleration.
This transfer of energy is not likely to be instantaneous. Change is always resisted. This is the nature of things. It is why things do not spontaneously change in form or state.
A change in electron orbits will therefore be resisted just like any other change. It cannot be done without work. However, once the work has been performed, no additional work is required. The object will continue to exist in its new state as if it was its natural state all along.
This resistance to change is what we call inertia. Inertia of normal matter can be explained entirely as the resistance to change in electron orbits.
Inertia of subatomic matter, such as electrons cannot be explained this way. However, the simplest possible model of an electron is the collection of one positive quantum together with two negative quanta. These quanta are almost certainly orbiting each other. They can therefore widen their orbits around each other in much the same way electrons widen their orbits around the nucleus of atoms.
Energy will be stored in whatever way is convenient. For atoms, energy is stored in the orbits of their electrons. For subatomic matter energy is stored in a widening in their internal orbits.
Alternatively, all energy is stored in a widening of subatomic orbits, and we have simply misinterpreted the photons as appearing from a change of electron orbits, rather than a change in internal subatomic orbits.
Either way, inertia can be explained as a resistance to change in energy.
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