[escepticos] Re: [escepticos] Inercia (¿por que no os gusta hablar de ello?) (fwd)

["J.S." <j.susaeta@...>]

Hola...

Si, la nota es muy significativa. Pediré el artículo de Brans; a ver si hay
suerte y es legible.

Saludos

Javier


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos Ungil" <Carlos.Ungil en cern.ch>
To: <escepticos en ccdis.dis.ulpgc.es>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [escepticos] Inercia (¿por que no os gusta hablar de ello?)
(fwd)


> Hola, hola.
>
> Ciufolini y Wheeler, en el capítulo 6 dedicado al campo
> gravitomagnético, cita tres efectos predichos por la teoría de
> Einstein y que estaban de acuerdo con el pensamiento de Mach:
>
> 1. The inertia of a body must increase when ponderable masses are
> piled up in its neighbourhood.
> (...)
>
>
> However, regarding this point it has to be stressed that in general
> relativity, because of the very strong equivalence principle, the
> inertial mass and the gravitational mass, or G, do not change in the
> field of other masses. This change may however be present in
> alternative metric theories (*) (see chap. 3). Indeed, in 1962, Brans
> had shown that in general relativity this change is a mere coordinate
> effect. (**)
>
> (...)
>
> (**) C. H. Brans, Mach´s principle and the locally measured
> gravitational constant in general relativity, Phys. Rev. 125:388-96
> (1962).
>
> Chau,
>
> Carlitos
>
> (...)