Mach's Principle: From Newton's Bucket to Quantum Gravity: Second Printing, 1996, Vol. 6 Book

	Contents
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction and Historical
	General Introduction	1
	Mach before Mach	6
	Mach's Principle before Einstein	9
	Mach's Criticism of Newton and Einstein's Reading of Mach: The Stimulating Role of Two Misunderstandings	58
	Einstein's Formulations of Mach's Principle	67
	General Discussion: What is The Machian Program?	91
2	Nonrelativistic Machian Theories
	Introduction
	Selected Passages: Math, Poincare, Boltzmann	109
	Absolute or Relative Motion?	114
	On Absolute and Relative Motion	120
	Motion and Inertia	128
	On the Relativity of Accelerations in Mechanics	134
	The Possibility of Fulfillment of the Relativity Requirement in Classical Mechanics	147
	Weber's Law and Mach's Principle	159
	A Relative Newtonian Mechanics	172
3	General Relativity as a More or Less Machian Theory
	Introduction
	Selected Passages on Machian Ideas	180
	Wheeler-Einstein-Mach Spacetimes	188
	Comments on Initial Value Formulation	208
	General Relativity as a Perfectly Machian Theory	214
	A Closed Universe Cannot Rotate	237
4	Other Formulations of Mach's Principle
	Direct Particle Formulation of Mach's Principle	250
	Mach's Principle and the Creation of Matter	262
	The Integral Formulation of Mach's Principle	274
	Mach's Principle and Local Causal Structure	293
5	Frame Dragging
	Absolute or Relative Motion?	309
	On a Gyroscope Experiment to Measure the Rotation Velocity of the Earth	312
	Dragging Effects near Rotating Bodies and in Cosmological Models	315
	Comments on Dragging Effects	332
	Dragging Effects near a Rigidly Rotating Disk of Dust	339
	Dragging Effects and the Theory of Active Galactic Nuclei	347
	On the Interpretation of Dragging Effects in Rotating Mass Shells	353
6	Experimental Status
	Testing Machian Effects in Laboratory and Space Experiments	365
	Dragging of Inertial Frames, Gravitomagnetism, and Mach's Principle	386
	Time Variation of Fundamental Constants: Bounds from Local Data	403
	Machian Effects in Physical Law and the Field Paradigm of Modern Physics	422
7	Critical Reflections
	Mach, the Expansion of the Universe, the Variation of Inertial Mass, and Lense-Thirring	437
	Mach's Principle and Theories of Gravitation	442
	Machian Ideas and General Relativity	458
	Reflections on Mach's Principle	474
8	Quantum Gravity
	The Higgs Field and Mach's Principle of Relativity of Inertia	479
	Geometric Structures on Superspace	491
	General Discussion: Time, General Relativity, and Quantum Gravity	501
	Names and Addresses of Contributors	527
	Index of Different Formulations of Mach's Principle	530
	Name and Subject Index	531