Brad McFall
Member (Idle past 5430 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: 12-20-2001
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Message 36 of 310 (180295)
01-24-2005 5:53 PM
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Reply to: Message 35 by crashfrog
01-24-2005 5:49 PM
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Perhaps Cosmo had intended the 19th century view of the aether and/or Mach's "principle" that Einstein once founded a discussion of cosmology on, and generates so much polemic that a modern physics journal will not publish material on that basis? And no, I dont begrude you.
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Brad McFall
Member (Idle past 5430 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: 12-20-2001
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Message 237 of 310 (181911)
01-30-2005 6:39 PM
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Reply to: Message 38 by simple
01-24-2005 6:03 PM
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Re: imaginary history to boot
Bridgman had, quote:
"Concealed here is all the physics involved in the invariable direction of gyrocompass with respect to the stars, a phenomenon which has excited the wonder of generations of physicists and which has been loosly formulated in the "Mach Principle," accoring to which the inertial properties of local bodies are determined in some way by all the other masses in the universe, particularly the distant masses. It is however, not necessary to assume any esoteric iinfluence of the stars on terrestrial phenomenona. The stars appear to have a connection because they are so far away that they can have no connection. (The matter is discussed further in my note, "The Significance of the Mach Principle," Amer. Jour. of Phys. 29,32-36 [1961]"
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