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Complexity and Its Creation
Julian Barbour, Zaza Doborjginidze, Tim Koslowski +1
Except for crystalline or random structures, an agreed definition of complexity for intermediate and hence interesting cases does not exist. We fill this gap with a notion of compl…
gr-qc2011★ 7 cited
Mach's Principle: A Response to Mashhoon and Wesson's Paper arXiv: 1106.6036
Julian Barbour
In their recent "Mach's principle and higher-dimensional dynamics", Mashhoon and Wesson argue that Mach's principle is not properly incorporated into general relativity and that in…
gr-qc2004★ 111 cited
The physical gravitational degrees of freedom
Edward Anderson, Julian Barbour, Brendan Z. Foster +2
When constructing general relativity (GR), Einstein required 4D general covariance. In contrast, we derive GR (in the compact, without boundary case) as a theory of evolving 3-dime…