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"text": "1988, J. V. Narlikar, A. K. Kembhavi, Nonstandard Cosmologies, Vittorio Canuto, Bruce G. Elmegreen (editors), Handbook of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics, Volume II: Galaxies and Cosmology, Gordon and Breach, page 390,\nWe now discuss a theory of gravitation and cosmology which is perhaps more strongly rooted in Mach's principle than any other theory discussed so far."
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"text": "This is most famously embodied in Mach's Principle (so named by Einstein), which in its simplest form states that 'mass there influences inertia here'. More formally, it says that inertia is causally determined by the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe.",
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