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The Birth and Death
Ernst Mach was born on February 18, 1838, in the Austrian Empire, currently to be known as The Czech republic. Ernst Mach died February 19, 1916, at age 78 in Germany. -
Doctorate in Physics
Mach achieved his doctorates in Physics and taught in Vienna about mathematics. -
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Mach's Bands
Mach discovered a phenomenon that is now termed Mach's bands. This is where the inclination of the human eye to see bright or dim bands near the borders between areas of sharply opposing lighting. -
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Mach as a Philosopher
Mach, as explained by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, was "best known as a positivist who influenced Logical Positivism, a philosopher of physics who influenced Einstein, and an empiricist who denied the reality of atoms." -
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Mach helped innovative the perception that all knowledge is from sensation and that spectacles under scientific examination can be understood only in terms of experiences existing in the observation. -
Supersonics and the Mach Number
Ernst Mach invented the principles of supersonics and what we now know to be the "Mach" number. The Mach number is the ratio of an object to the velocity of sound. Click Here to learn more about what "Mach" is. -
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What this interpretation leads to is that no declaration in natural science is acceptable unless it is empirically demonstrable. Mach’s extraordinarily demanding standards of verifiability led him to discard such conjectural concepts as absolute time and space and arranged the way for the Einstein relativity theory.
