Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Mach's Principle: Anti-Epiphenomenal Physics - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2008 05:01AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2008 05:53:12PM 1 point [-]

Steven, the idea is not that GR requires Mach_n (then Mach_n would be generally accepted, of course!) but that GR permits Mach_n for some ns. From Einstein's perspective, this is an improvement over Newton's Bucket and it is a major historical motivation of GR.