Mach's principle

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英文释义

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  1. The principle that the inertia of a body arises from its relation to the totality of all other bodies in the universe.
    — We now discuss a theory of gravitation and cosmology which is perhaps more strongly rooted in Mach's principle than any other theory discussed so far.

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Named after German physicist Ernst Mach, to whom the hypothesis is often attributed. Coined by Albert Einstein, who sought to incorporate the hypothesis into his theory of general relativity.
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