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A flat space-time relativistic explanation for the perihelion advance of Mercury (2003)
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@MISC{A03aflat,
author = {Harihar Behera A and P. C. Naik B},
title = {A flat space-time relativistic explanation for the perihelion advance of Mercury},
year = {2003}
}
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Abstract
Starting with the flat space-time relativistic versions of Maxwell-Heaviside’s toy model vector theory of gravity and introducing the gravitational analogues for the electromagnetic Lienard-Wiechert potentials together with the notion of a gravitational Thomas Precession; the observed anomalous perihelion advance of Mercury’s orbit is here explained as a relativistic effect in flat (Minkowski) space-time, unlike Einstein’s curved space-time relativistic explanation. In this new explanation for the old paradoxical observation of Mercury’s perihelion shift, the predicted value of the effect happens to coincide with Einstein’s predicted value in General relativity.
Keyphrases
perihelion advance flat space-time relativistic explanation flat space-time relativistic version space-time relativistic explanation observed anomalous perihelion advance old paradoxical observation general relativity electromagnetic lienard-wiechert potential maxwell-heaviside toy model vector theory new explanation gravitational analogue mercury orbit relativistic effect predicted value perihelion shift gravitational thomas precession
