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The case against space dragging. (English) Zbl 1044.83510

Summary: Schiff in 1960 and many others since then have used “space-dragging” Machian explanations for such general-relativistic phenomena as the Lense-Thirring precession of gyroscopes in the space outside massive rotating objects. But an examination of what the dragging patterns could be, shows these explanations to be unsatisfactory.

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83B05 Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory
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