Caiti

The question of Newton's bucket experiment, is from which frame of reference does the water in the bucket spin? Newton believed the water spinned in relation to what he called, "absolute space." Leibniz thought the water spun only in realtion to the objects around it. Berkeley said it spins in relation to the fixed stars. Mach wrote that the water's rotation was relative to the mass of the earth and to other celestial bodies. Finally, Einstein agreed with Mach and called the theory that motion is relative to all matter in the universe "general relativity." I agree with Einstein's theory of relativity and hold the view that there is no ultimate frame of reference.