timmdeeg
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Doesn't "mass there governs inertia here" imply that the inertial mass of a body depends on the spacetime geometry?PeterDonis said:My personal view on GR is closer to that of the Cuifolini and Wheeler textbook I referenced, whose tag line is "mass there governs inertia here", i.e., GR is Machian to the extent that such a question even matters. The Einstein Field Equation says that the spacetime geometry at any event is determined by the distribution of stress-energy in the past light cone of that event. That seems pretty Machian to me.