Astrophysics Seminars

Mar
10
2009

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Mach's Principle: Is Space-Time Created by its Energy Content?
Donald Lynden-Bell
11:00am|Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library
It is quite simple to build a Newtonian dynamics without Newton's absolute space which nevertheless gives exactly the same relative motions of the bodies as Newton's dynamics when the latter is applied in a non-rotating Universe like ours. The...