TITLE:
The Machian Origin of the Centrifugal Force
AUTHORS:
Lorenzo Barattini, Paolo Christillin
KEYWORDS:
Centrifugal Force; Mach’s Principle
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.3 No.9A,
September
20,
2012
ABSTRACT: A derivation of the centrifugal force from an effective vector formulation of gravitation is attempted. The centrifugal force appears to be due to a relativistic effect of the counter-rotating Universe. Gravitomagnetic energy effects, a mil-lion times stronger than the self-energy effects responsible for curvature in the GR language, would thus produce the centrifugal acceleration. The Machian picture, already successful in the case of the Coriolis force, gets an additional circumstantial support.