On May 3, 2007, at 2:35 AM, Michel Jullian wrote:
Hi Horace,
I don't deny that gravimagnetism exists (it's an obvious
consequence of gravity propagating at a finite speed, if the term
means what I think it means i.e. the gravitational Lorentz force)
but when you say "the ambient gravimagnetic field in the vicinity
of Earth required to account for the precession of the Earth", are
you suggesting the observed precession rate is not, or not
entirely, accounted for by the official explanation that this
precession is due to the gravitational torque exerted by the Sun on
the Earth's equatorial bulge?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession_of_the_equinoxes#Explanation
The official theory works nicely though, I remember I had to derive
the precession rate as a physics exercise when I was a student many
years ago, assuming the Earth was an homogeneous ellipsoid of the
right dimensions, and it came out strikingly close to observations.
Regards,
Michel
Michel,
I very much appreciate your comments. I decided to pull all the
ambient field stuff from the article at:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/FullGravimag.pdf
If I can find any other basis for calculating an ambient field value
I'll take a crack at it.
Regards,
Horace Heffner
