A Machian Approach to General Relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-08-19 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Mach's principle is surely one of those tantalizingly beautiful concepts in physics which remain elusive. Though General Relativity (GR) was conceived in the spirit of realizing it, the theory failed to fulfill this expectation. Here a study on the implications of imposing Mach's principle on GR with an insight that spacetime has no independent existence without a material background, is presented. This inclusion of the principle in GR turns out to be unexpectedly rewarding. The resulting theory solves many mysteries and averts lingering problems of the conventional forms of GR and cosmology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.03331,
title = {A Machian Approach to General Relativity},
author = {Ram Gopal Vishwakarma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03331},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. (in press)