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Ok. Sorry I have caused so much trouble here. I like IBIX's response. I should just focus on EInstein's field equations and forget Mach's principle since it is not a rigorously, defined scientific principle.

Let me ask you this. When Einstein stated this, he had already completed and published his general theory of relativity. I know he abandoned Mach's principle later on but is it true the mathematics of general relativity predict linear frame dragging can occur? If it is true that the...

"The Meaning of Relativity", Princeton University Press, 1922, page 106, Albert Einstein in his fourth lecture at Princeton University stated this: "What is to be expected along the line off Mach's thought?...2. A body must experience an accelerating force when neighbouring masses are...

If you are in a reference system attached to a platform, accelerating in the positive y-direction, with respect to your reference frame the whole universe would be accelerating in the negative y-direction and a spring attached to the platform with a mass attached to it would compress in the...

Some Machian theories propose that its the relative acceleration of the universe opposite to the acceleration of an object that causes dragging linear inertial forces on the object. But how do they explain deacceleration of the object when the relative motion of the universe is de-accelerating...

Yes. What I am saying is there are two broad categories of inertia. In the first, one assumes inertia is some kind of intrinsic property of matter. Newton stated this in his third definition of the Principia: "The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting, by which every...

If you read my paper I said in the beginning that I do not take any position on the how or why of the causes of inertia. It is too controversial of a subject. The only position I take is that inertia is an extrinsic property of matter. I do lean toward a position but I chose not to discuss or...

I have attached [Mentors note: the attachment has been deleted] a paper (patent application number was 63/191,323 confirmation number 2211 filing date 5/20/21) that reports on an experiment that I did that strongly suggests that inertial effects can impact the speed of the center of mass of a...

Thanks for answering.

Thanks for the response.

Ok, thanks for the reply.

This may seem like a trivial question but I don't know if there is a formal proof for this. Is the following expression never true? a^n-b^n =1, where a >b, a,b,n are positive integer numbers. Was this known since ancient times? Or is there a modern proof for this?

Ha Ha! You are good! How do you find these solutions so quickly?

I am interested in finding any proofs that exist which demonstrates that the difference between two odd powered integers can never be equal to a square? Has there been any research in this? For example, given this expression a^n -b^n = c^2, where a,b,c are positive integers and a>b, n = odd...

From my research I have found that since Fermat proved his last theorem for the n=4 case, one only needs to prove his theorem for the case where n=odd prime where c^n = a^n + b^n. But I am not clear on some points relating to this. For example, what if we have the term (c^x)^p, where c is an...