Comment on Frank Wilczek's essay "Total Relativity: Mach 2004"
Abstract
Frank Wilczek's essay "Total Relativity: Mach 2004" (PHYSICS TODAY April, 2004, p. 10) cogently updates the status of the intuitively compelling, but partly unrealized, theory of Mach's Principle. I think, however, that an important consequence of the Principle has been skipped: that is, the possibility of linear deformations of the internal structure of elementary particles from the Minkowski structure imposed by the local gravitational (metric) field. [Note: This Comment is similar to one submitted to, but not published by, PHYSICS TODAY as a Letter to the Editor.]
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0512204,
title = {Comment on Frank Wilczek's essay "Total Relativity: Mach 2004"},
author = {G. E. Hahne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0512204},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, no figures or tables; similar to a communication originally submitted to, but not published by, PHYSICS TODAY as a Letter to the Editor. Revised version: augmented title and abstract, several changes made in text for clarity