Comment on "On Mach's critique of Newton and Copernicus"
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Hartman and Nissim-Sabat have argued that Mach's idea of the relativity of rotational motion suffers from internal inconsistencies and leads to a contradiction that there cannot be a stationary bucket in a rotating universe. They also claimed that non-inertial electromagnetic and stellar aberration observations can distinguish between a rotating and a stationary universe, whereas according to Mach there cannot be any observable way to distinguish these two cases. We contest these objections.
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@article{arxiv.0705.1207,
title = {Comment on "On Mach's critique of Newton and Copernicus"},
author = {A. Bhadra and S. C. Das},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.1207},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Six pages, to appear in AJP