Gordon Belot: The Mach-Einstein Principle of 1917-1918 

Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar, Trinity Term 2021
20 May: Gordon Belot (Michigan, Ann Arbor)
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Title: The Mach-Einstein Principle of 1917-1918
Abstract: In 1917 and 1918, Einstein maintained that in general relativity the spacetime metric is fully determined by the distribution of matter. I’ll worry about what he meant by this, whether it makes any sense, and whether any claim in the neighbourhood is true.
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