The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... MACH'S PRINCIPLE ' Einstein , in introducing λ into his field equations , clearly believed that they had no possible solution for empty space . Such a solution would have shown the equations to be incompatible with the ' principle of ...
... MACH'S PRINCIPLE ' Einstein , in introducing λ into his field equations , clearly believed that they had no possible solution for empty space . Such a solution would have shown the equations to be incompatible with the ' principle of ...
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... Mach's Principle . One can still ask , however , why Einstein ever thought his basic gravitational theory to have been compromised by de Sitter's solution . What is incompatible with the Mach - Einstein principle is , after all , a ...
... Mach's Principle . One can still ask , however , why Einstein ever thought his basic gravitational theory to have been compromised by de Sitter's solution . What is incompatible with the Mach - Einstein principle is , after all , a ...
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... Mach's Principle ' was essential to any satis- factory physical theory ? As it happens he never had to answer the question , for he and Gold side - stepped it by adopting this ' Perfect Cosmological Principle ' : ' Apart from local ...
... Mach's Principle ' was essential to any satis- factory physical theory ? As it happens he never had to answer the question , for he and Gold side - stepped it by adopting this ' Perfect Cosmological Principle ' : ' Apart from local ...
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COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH | 16 |
FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO | 24 |
The Le SageThomson explanation of gravitation | 38 |
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The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology John David North Engin sýnishorn í boði - 1965 |
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