Cosmology, Mach’s principle and relativity |
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| Authors: | R H Dicke |
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| Institution: | (1) Gravity Probe B Theory Group, Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;(2) Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252, USA |
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| Abstract: | The significance of Mach’s principle (and the implicit relativity principle) for field theory is discussed, also the significance
of zero-mass boson fields for the geometry of the physical space. The significance of such fields for Mach’s principle within
the framework of cosmology is also discussed. It is suggested that the distant matter of the universe generates one or two
zero-mass boson fields, very likely a tensor field and perhaps a scalar, and that each of these fields propagates, carrying
into the laboratory a quasistatic influence having its origin primarily in the distant matter of the universe. The observable
effects of these “Machian fields” are described. |
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