Resolving Mercury’s Perihelion Precession and Implications for General Relativity
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Given the amount of feedback I have received (all of it negative), there appears to be some confusion about what this work represents. I take full responsibility for my part in as I am not great at communicating my ideas. To that end, in hopes of clarifying the nature of this work and its implications, I have made multiple revisions to the work. The arguments now flow more logically, and the added details should make my arguments clearer. Part of the problem was caused when translating from my text to LaTeX, the AI I use would inexplicably drop information, rearrange components and completely wreck equations. Clearly, AI is not ready for prime time. still, it's my responsibility to check every detail. I believe I have managed to do that this time around.This brief explores the resolution of Mercury’s perihelion precession anomaly within the framework of Newtonian mechanics. It revisits Le Verrier’s historical calculations and the assumptions about Mercury’s mass, highlighting that the observed anomaly disappears when accurate mass values are used. The brief contrasts this resolution with General Relativity (GR), which had been invoked to explain the discrepancy, and examines the implications for GR's foundational claims. The document also explains Le Verrier’s methodology, particularly his use of perturbation theory and indirect mass estimations, and recalculates the mass of Mercury based on modern observational data and inverse proportionality between mass and precession rate.
Source: Figshare
Author: Meson, Mu
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6902388612
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