physics, particularly in discussions of gravitation theories, Mach's principle (or Mach's conjecture) is the name given by Albert Einstein to an imprecise...

World War II at Harvard, Frank attributed to Mach himself the following graphic expression of Mach's principle: "When the subway jerks, it's the fixed stars...

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His activities in that field later influenced Ernst Mach's theoretical work. Some sources give Mach's birthplace as Tuřany (German: Turas, also part of...

theoretical physics, shape dynamics is a theory of gravity that implements Mach's principle, developed with the specific goal to obviate the problem of time and...

Einstein as not just support for, but a vindication of Mach's principle, in a letter he wrote to Ernst Mach in 1913 (five years before Lense and Thirring's work...

In physics, the principle of relativity is the requirement that the equations describing the laws of physics have the same form in all admissible frames...

included in The Principle of Relativity, page 38. Dover 1923 Rotation of the Universe Julian B. Barbour; Herbert Pfister (1998). Mach's Principle: From Newton's...

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CMB a modern analogue of an absolute reference frame. Mach's principle and distant masses Ernst Mach proposed that inertia arises from the interaction of...

relativity. A more recent form of these objections was made by Ernst Mach. Mach's principle proposes that mechanics is entirely about relative motion of bodies...

rotation of the dust in just the way such a Mach principle would suggest, this model does accord with Mach's ideas. Many other exact solutions that can...

The Mach effect can refer to: Mach bands are an optical illusion that are often referred as "the Mach effect". Mach's principle – a hypothesis attempting...

Mach's principle can be thought of as a half-way-house between Newton and Einstein. An explanation follows: Newton: Absolute space and time. Mach: The...

forces that he calls Mach effects but are also referred to as the Woodward effect. He says that his hypothesis is based on Mach's principle that posits inertia...

1080/00048409412346161. ISSN 0004-8402. Dicke, R. H. (1961). "Dirac's cosmology and Mach's principle". Nature. 192 (4801): 440–441. Bibcode:1961Natur.192..440D. doi:10...

hypothesis is integrated in general relativity is discussed in the article Mach's principle; it is generally held that general relativity is not entirely Machian...

doi:10.1126/science.129.3349.621. PMID 17735811. Dicke, R. H. (1962). "Mach's Principle and Equivalence". Evidence for gravitational theories: proceedings...

the frame were rotating with respect to absolute space. Around 1883, Mach's principle was proposed where, instead of absolute rotation, the motion of the...

of Time ISBN 978-0465095469 Basic Books. 1982 (with B. Bertotti). Mach's Principle and the Structure of Dynamical Theories. 1994 (with Vladimir Pavlovich...

framework of the equivalence principle. In 1957, he first proposed an alternative theory of gravitation inspired by Mach's principle and Paul Dirac's large...

Mach's principle, which would eliminate any "absolute motion" within general relativity. However, as pointed out by Willem de Sitter in 1916, Mach's principle...

Relativtheorie) used in 1906 by Planck, who emphasized how the theory uses the principle of relativity. In the discussion section of the same paper, Alfred Bucherer...

of closed curvature, in accordance with Einstein's understanding of Mach's principle in these years. This model became known as the Einstein World or Einstein's...

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dark energy, or zero-point energy. Another approach is to reconsider Mach's principle and Euclidean space. A third research avenue that might ultimately...

theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach's principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of...

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