Predicting Mercury's precession using simple relativistic Newtonian dynamics
Abstract
We present a new simple relativistic model for planetary motion describing accurately the anomalous precession of the perihelion of Mercury and its origin. The model is based on transforming Newton's classical equation for planetary motion from absolute to real spacetime influenced by the gravitational potential and introducing the concept of influenced direction.
- Publication:
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EPL (Europhysics Letters)
- Pub Date:
- March 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1209/0295-5075/113/39001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1603.02560
- Bibcode:
- 2016EL....11339001F
- Keywords:
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- precession of the perihelion;
- Physics - General Physics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 5 pages