Re: Orbital precession w/o GR

On Nov 27, 5:59 pm, "Androcles" wrote:

Hardly surprising, David. Orbital precession has never been in question,
only the amount.
The figure usually contrived is 43 arc seconds per century,
as calculated by Le Verrier using Newtonian Mechanics,
but that's a so-what.

Yes, what Le Verrier calculated based on data being collected since
his great grandfather's time was actually 5,600 arc seconds per 100
earth years. Out of the 5,600, 5,025 arc seconds can be accounted for
through the 26,000-year-cycle precession or wobbling of earth's
rotational axis. 532 arc seconds were calculated by him due to other
planets. Each stage of reductions introduces errors. Yes, these
error bars become very significant. Where the hell is Professor
Roberts when you need him to qualify this error bar? He went
ballistic on every accounts complaining about error bars. Why does he
ignore the significance of the error introduced on this one (and
others)? Does faith have any impact on his behavior of favoritism?
If so, he is not doing physics. <shrug>
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