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What is the Earth truly rotating about/revolving around?
Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun, the sun revolves around the galaxy, the galaxy is also moving. So Earth's net rotation as observed from a fixed inertial frame consists of all ...
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The LHC is quite a heavy thing, whereas the Higgs et al. are on the contrary [closed]
Albeit all the brilliant stuff needed to construct such a monster, thinking about Mach's Principle, I'm wondering why the biggest machines (the most complex experimental setups) one can imagine and ...
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If matter creates space, shouldn't there be experimentally detectable consequences?
Ernst Mach, a man to who influenced Albert Einstein significantly in his approach to relativity, did not quite seem to believe in space as a self-existing entity. I'm pretty sure it would be correct ...
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Why does the local inertial compass coincide with the stellar compass?
I found this physics paper via a non-duality site and I wished that I could understand it. Could someone please either read it and explain it to me or else point me to pages that would help me ...
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What's the deal with the gyroscope?
In this article ("The problem with physics", Tony Rothman, ABC science) the author says in the 5$^\textrm{th}$ paragraph:
For example, one needs only first-semester equations to describe
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What is the present state of Mach's Principle amongst physicists? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is Mach’s Principle Wrong?
I'm doing research on gravitation and inertial forces and would like to know what is the place that Mach's Principle is occupying nowadays in ...
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Would the arms of a rotating ice skater still move outwards if there was no other object in the universe?
If there is no other object in the universe apart from a rotating ice skater, then nothing can be used as a reference frame. Would it make any sense to say that the skater is rotating? If so, rotating ...
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Inertia in an empty universe
I was reading a recent article on Mach's Principle. In it, the author talks about inertia in an empty universe. I'll quote some lines from the article:
Imagine a single body in an otherwise empty ...
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How do we explain accelerated motion in Newtonian physics and in modern physics?
Maybe my question will seem stupid, but I am not a physicist so I have some problems understanding a classic Newtonian experiment: in the bucket experiment, why does he have to introduce the absolute ...
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Is Mach's Principle Wrong?
This question was prompted by another question about a paper by Woodward (not mine). IMO Mach's principle
is very problematic (?wrong) thinking. Mach was obviously influenced by Leibniz. Empty space ...
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Is the Woodward effect real?
Did anyone ever heard about this?I've never seen any serious physicist talk about "mass fluctuations".
Here is the man in his own words: http://www.intalek.com/Index/Projects/Research/woodward1.pdf
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Newton's Bucket
Newton's Bucket
This thought experiment is originally due to Sir Isaac Newton. We have a sphere of water floating freely in an opaque box in intergalactic space, held together by surface tension and ...
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What determines which frames are inertial frames?
I understand that you can (in principle) measure whether "free particles" (no forces) experience accelerations in order to tell whether a frame is inertial. But fundamentally, what determines which ...
