Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday - Week 4, TT21)
Thursday 20th May 2021, 16:30
Online
Gordon Belot (Michigan): The Mach—Einstein Principle of 1917—1918
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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