Brown, Harvey R. and Lehmkuhl, Dennis (2013) Einstein, the reality of space, and the action-reaction principle. [Preprint]

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Einstein regarded as one of the triumphs of his 1915 theory of gravity - the general theory of relativity - that it vindicated the action-reaction principle, while Newtonian mechanics as well as his 1905 special theory of relativity supposedly violated it. In this paper we examine why Einstein came to emphasise this position several years after the development of general relativity. Several key considerations are relevant to the story: the connection Einstein originally saw between Mach's analysis of inertia and both the equivalence principle and the principle of general covariance, the waning of Mach's influence owing to de Sitter's 1917 results, and Einstein's detailed correspondence with Moritz Schlick in 1920.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Brown, Harvey R. harvey.brown@philosophy.ox.ac.uk Lehmkuhl, Dennis dennis.lehmkuhl@uni-wuppertal.de
Keywords:	Einstein, action-reaction, spacetime, Schlick, Mach
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Dr Dennis Lehmkuhl
Date Deposited:	25 May 2013 12:37
Last Modified:	25 May 2013 12:37
Item ID:	9792
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	2013
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9792

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