Feed: Dr. Myron Evans
Posted on: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 8:00 AM
Author: metric345
Subject: Angle of Precession of the Perihelion
| If theta increases by 360 degrees or 2pi, then x theta increases to x theta + 2 pi x. If x were 1 then the incresae would be 2pi. So the extra increase due to x is the angle of the precession of the perihelion:
delta theta = 2 pi (x – 1) per revolution of 360 degrees in theta. Usually for Mercury this is claimed to be 43 arcseconds per century, but the Miles Mathis site for example criticises this claim severely. The above angle is however the precession of the perihelion for any type of fractal orbit: r = alpha / ( 1 + epsilon cos (x theta)) One arcsecond = 4.848 microradians, so x – 1 for 43 seconds of arc is about ten power minus six per hundred orbits (a century), or ten power minus eight per orbit, so x is very close to unity. Mathis claims (quite convincingly but ignored by EGR dogmatists) that Einstein mixed up the Mercury year with the earth year and that in the traditional method some precessions are treated classically with Newton, while only the 43 arcseconds one is treated with EGR (again that is convincing but of course ignored by EGR dogmatists). In great contrast the above two equations are very simple and treat all precessions in the same way. As x increases, the precession angle increases and all kinds of amazing new orbits appear, all unknown to science.
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