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