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Planck's universe and Mach's principle

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We show that Planck's quantities for mass and length, obey the Machian condition given by Whitrow (1946) and later by Brans and Dicke (1961) apud Sciama.

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The contents of this paper was first noticed by me while staying at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, in 1991.

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Berman, M.S. Planck's universe and Mach's principle. Astrophys Space Sci 222, 235–236 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00627099

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