Mach principle

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Mach principle [′mäk ‚prin·sə·pəl]

(relativity)

The principle that the motion of a particle is only meaningful when referred to the rest of the matter in the universe; this motion is thus determined by the distribution of this matter and is not an intrinsic property of an absolute space.

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