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http://hdl.handle.net/2122/8656| Authors: | Scalera, G. | Editors: | Scalera, Giancarlo Boschi, Enzo Cwojdzinski, Stefan |
Title: | If Space is Material, What Inertia Should Be? - Rediscovering a Dismissed Awareness of Ernst Mach | Publisher: | Aracne Editrice, Roma | Issue Date: | Dec-2012 | ISBN: | 978-88-548-5693-6 | Keywords: | Mach Principle Inertia conceptions Fluid dynamics |
Subject Classification: | 05. General::05.03. Educational, History of Science, Public Issues::05.03.99. General or miscellaneous | Abstract: | The ”Mach’s Principle” has beenconsidered for more than a century as the highest expression of the philosophical rationality of the western world, but it is possible to proof that it is built on a unstable ground and with uncomplete assumptions. With a great intellectual honesty, Ernst Mach showed in his works some awareness of the incompleteness of his reasoning about inertia. Moreover the Mach Principle is often misinterpreted by scientific community with an illegitimate extrapolation of the Mach words. |
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