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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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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 ...