Austrian physicist (1838–1916)
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The physicist who saw past Newton's absolute space a generation before Einstein — and whose name you hear every time a jet breaks the sound barrier.
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was born on 18 February 1838 in Austria, and spent his career pulling apart assumptions older scientists took as gospel. His work on shock waves gave us the Mach number, the ratio that measures how fast something moves compared to sound. But his sharpest cut was philosophical: he tore into Newton's ideas of absolute space and time, arguing they were metaphysical baggage physics didn't need. That skepticism rippled through logical positivism and American pragmatism, and it planted seeds Einstein would harvest when he dismantled the same Newtonian framework in r…
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I see the expression of... economy clearly in the gradual reduction of the statical laws of machines to a single one, viz.
The aim of research is the discovery of the equations which subsist between the elements of phenomena.
There is no problem in all mathematics that cannot be solved by direct counting.
I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much.
Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies.
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