Relational Mechanics and Implementation of Mach's Principle with Weber's Gravitational Force

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Assis contra excess baggage in physical theories (PDF p. ):

We agree with O’Rahilly as regards the several problems and confusions which Einstein’s theories brought to physics. [O’R65, Volume 2, Chapter XIII, Section 5, pp. 662-71 [PDF/DjVu pp. 221-230].]
In our view, several theoretic concepts of modern physics have the same role as the epicycles in the old ptolemaic theory: Length contraction, time dilation, Lorentz’s invariance, Lorentz’s transformations, covariant laws, invariant laws, Minkowski’s metric, Minkowski’s spacetime, four-dimensional space-time, energy-momentum tensor, Riemannian geometry applied to physics, virtual photon, Schwarzschild’s line element, tensorial algebras in four-dimensional spaces, quadrivectors, metric tensor g μν , Christoffel’s symbols, string theory, super strings, curvature of space, dark matter, dark energy, wormholes, etc. The relational mechanics presented in this book is totally against Einstein’s theories and eliminates all these epicycles.

PDF p. 265ff. give the full "Mach's principle" quotes

∃ experimental tests of which view, Mach's or Newton's, is correct (slide 25 of his lecture; §24.5 Experimental Tests of Relational Mechanics, pp. 460-74 // PDF pp. 480-94). The experiments require measuring lengths down to 1 part in 1029, which is currently beyond today's technological capacities (cf. Planck length = 1.6×10-33 m), but will be feasible in the future, with the development of more precise measurement apparatuses.