Mach's Principle and Its Implications for Physics - Real Physics Talk

Mach's Principle and Its Implications for Physics - Real Physics Talk

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  1. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 Working in 2023 at Augsburg University on Weber’s Electrodynamics
  3. 3 Newtons own "Machian" concerns
  4. 4 The meaning of the acceleration in Newton’s second law of motion
  5. 5 Leibniz against Newton’s concept of absolute empty space
  6. 6 Performing Newton’s bucket experiment
  7. 7 The concavity of the water is due to the rotation of the bucket relative to what?
  8. 8 Mach’s critique of Newtonian concepts
  9. 9 Mach: the concavity of the water is due to its rotation relative to the distant masses
  10. 10 Mach’s famous thought experiment: Influence of distant stars?
  11. 11 Predictions according to Newton and Mach and the subtle difference.
  12. 12 Galileo’s free fall experiment and the anticipation of the equivalcence principle
  13. 13 The gravitational constant G and Mach’s principle: inertia and gravity
  14. 14 Dirac’s large number hypothesis
  15. 15 Schrödinger’s paper of 1925 on Mach’s principle
  16. 16 Sciama 1953, Dicke 1957 and Einstein 1911
  17. 17 Newton’s prediction of the flattening of the Earth due to its diurnal rotation
  18. 18 Thought experiment: What would happen to the shape of the Earth?
  19. 19 The rotating universe : Opposite predictions of Newton and Mach.
  20. 20 Foucault’s pendulum experiment
  21. 21 The remarkable coincidence people usually do not reflect upon.
  22. 22 What would be the shape of the Earth without distant galaxies?
  23. 23 Einstein’s general theory of relativity does not implement Mach’s principle
  24. 24 Ernst Mach rejected explicitly Einstein’s theory of relativity
  25. 25 Relational Mechanics and Mach’s Principle with Weber’s Gravitational Force
  26. 26 English translation of Weber’s works on electrodynamics
  27. 27 Unification of gravitation with electromagnetism
  28. 28 Local experiments with Newton’s bucket

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