"dr_strangelove" wrote in message
...
:I developed an explanation of orbital precession that does not require
: GR. It only uses 2 well accepted physical formulas and some math. It
: can be viewed at:
: http://toe.sytes.net:65333/planetary%20precession.pdf
:
: I await your personal attacks and name calling.
:
: Thank you very much.

Hardly surprising, David. Orbital precession has never been in question,
only the amount.
The figure usually contrived is 43 arc seconds per century,
as calculated by Le Verrier using Newtonian Mechanics,
but that's a so-what.
In one Earth century Mercury will complete 415 orbits,
or 415 * 360 * 60 * 60 arc seconds.
An error of 43 arc seconds
is
43
epsilon = ------------------ * 100% = 0.00008%
537840000
Since Einstein was not an astronomer and Le Verrier
was working with recorded data, it would be ludicrous indeed
to call an error that miniscule significant.

I see you've claimed
"Mercury orbits the sun 414.9378 times in one earth century, so the
precession per century is: 42.9195 arc seconds per century in excellent
agreement with observation and GR."

I would add

"Mercury orbits the sun 414.9378 times in one earth century, so the
precession per century is: 42.9195 arc seconds per century in excellent
agreement with observation and Newtonian Mechanics"

In reality, of course, you've taken no observations at all and the
precession

is NOT 0.429195 arc seconds per YEAR or 0.10347715068493150684931506849315
arc seconds per Mercurial orbit,

but 0.32508305640618486353538008757815 arc seconds between

June 2004 and Sept 2004.

Go measure it and see.