If you are familiar with the history of cosmology you may skip to 6:30. In this video, I describe the flash of genius of Robert Dicke who provided a solution to the fundamental problem of cosmology already in 1957, based on Mach's pronciple. Dicke's paper (Gravitation without a Principle of Equivalence, Rev. Mod. Phys. 29, 363, 1957): See also: Mind also my backup channel: @TheMachian:c My books:
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