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View SchemaComment on Frank Wilczek's essay "Total Relativity: Mach 2004"
| Authors | G. E. Hahne |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0512204 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512204 |
Abstract
Frank Wilczek's essay "Total Relativity: Mach 2004" (PHYSICS TODAY April, 2004, p. 10) cogently updates the status of the intuitively compelling, but partly unrealized, theory of Mach's Principle. I think, however, that an important consequence of the Principle has been skipped: that is, the possibility of linear deformations of the internal structure of elementary particles from the Minkowski structure imposed by the local gravitational (metric) field. [Note: This Comment is similar to one submitted to, but not published by, PHYSICS TODAY as a Letter to the Editor.]
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