In the Grip of the Distant Universe

Peter Graneau, Neal Graneau

World Scientific

2020

274 páginas

9h 8m

ISBN-13: 9789812567543

Inglês

All Matter Instantaneously Senses All Other Matter in the Universe; Johannes Kepler The Astronomer Who Coined the Word Inertia; Free Fall A Hardly Believable Story of Science; The Cartesian Interlude A Novel Cosmology; Newton's Force of Inertia The Basis of Dynamics; A Century of Consolidation The Early Practitioners of Newtonian Dynamics; Mach's Magic Principle The Unique Inertial System; Albert Einstein Inertia Obscured by Gravitation; Inducing Inertia An Electromagnetic Analogy; Retarded Action at a Distance A Short Lived Misnomer; Clock Confusion in the 20th Century The Connection Between Inertia and Timekeeping; Machian Inertia and the Isotropic Universe A New Force Law;