How ’spacetime’ curvature makes mercury’s orbit precess?
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Why does mercury’s orbit precess? We thought it was due to gravitational effects of other planets. But, that accounts for about 92% of it. The remaining 8% comes from the spatial curvature of the sun as predicted by Einstein in his general theory of relativity.
Einstein’s 1911 & 1915 papers below:
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The visuals are inspired from the book - ’Relativity Visualised by Lewis Caroll Epstein’.
Check it out, the book is awesome.
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