Mach's Principle: Exact Frame-Dragging by Energy Currents in the Universe
Astrophysics
2008-06-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We show that the dragging of axis directions of local inertial frames by a weighted average of the energy currents in the universe (Mach's principle) is exact for all linear perturbations of all Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes and for all types of matter.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.2085,
title = {Mach's Principle: Exact Frame-Dragging by Energy Currents in the Universe},
author = {Christoph Schmid},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2085},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, to be published in the Proceedings of the 43rd Rencontrs de Moriond, La Thuile, March 15 - 22, 2008