410(2): Precession from Length Contraction and Time Dilatation
This note shows that it is possible to define the traditional Thomas precession from the fundamentals, without using any de Sitter rotation. The precession is defined in Eq. (31) using a three way consistency check.When de Sitter rotation is considered the Thomas precession is augmented as in recent notes and papers. Length contraction was suggested in a half page paper by Fitzgerald in 1892, and quickly developed by Lorentz and Heaviside. In my opinion planetary and binary pulsar precession can be explained using these new ideas without any use at all of the Einstein equation.