Mercury's Orbit of Advance Calculated by Einstein

From: Australopithecus Afarensis (fossil.lucy_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:38:32 -0700

According to the article referred by Bjerknes,

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/9811/9811050.pdf

Einstein calculated the advance of Mercury's orbit around the sun a few
weeks before General Relativity was presented by himself. Does any one know
how Einstein was able to calculate this advance of Mercury's orbit with
incomplete field equations? And a few months before Schwarzschild derived
the Schwarzschild metric? Is this an event that finally has proven time
traveling as a very real possibility? Also, does any one know who actually
derived it since Einstein's math was known not to be so sharp?

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