Mach’s principle
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2011-04-10
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The underlying idea in Mach's principle is that the origin of inertia or mass of a particle is a dynamical quantity determined by the environment, in particular the rest of the matter in the universe. In this article, we discuss the role of this idea in the Brans {Dicke theory of gravitation and the Hoyle {Narlikar cosmology.
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Inertia, Newton’s bucket experiment, Cosmology