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Machian Motivation Shapes Einstein Cosmology

Germany · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1917

Albert Einstein1917

Berlin · Science / Astronomy

Einstein designed his early relativistic cosmology partly around the hope that inertia would be determined by the overall distribution of matter, reflecting his interpretation of Mach's ideas.

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Albert Einstein

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