Calculation of the Perihelion Advance of Planets in a Field Approach to Gravitation
Abstract
It is shown that, when taking into account the self-gravity of field energy of a gravitational field, one obtains a modified field equation for the intensity of gravitational field, the solution of which, when inserted in Kepler's problem, furnishes a formula for the perihelion precession of planets which (except of a fitting numerical factor) is identical with Einstein's. In Appendix 1 we point out the significance of an analogous equation in electrodynamics, and in Appendix 2 we shall try to construct a field model within the relativistic field theory which justifies the previous perihelion-shift calculation.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- March 1972
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00649765
- Bibcode:
- 1972Ap&SS..15..375M