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