General Relativity Mercury’s Anomaly Prediction: What and How to Test?
Résumé
Einstein’s historic explanation of the angular shift in Mercury’s orbit r(θ) is crucially important for GR verification. It is commonly believed that the GR theory of the planetary perihelion advance is fully studied and understood in all its physical and mathematical aspects with no questions left. In fact, the GR effect in the time scale r(t) with the corresponding shift in the time period was neither theoretically deliberated nor observationally reported. As a result of our study of the more general formulation of GR particle space-time dynamics, we found more rich Physics there than previously thought. In this work, we present new results, which include the exact GR space-time solutions, the methodology of GR predictions based on a consistent comparison of GR and classical theories, finally, the numerical data concerning the GR explanation of Mercury’s motional anomaly.