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mlwozniak@wp.pl wrote:

> W dniu piątek, 27 listopada 2015 01:49:02 UTC+1 użytkownik Thomas
> 'PointedEars' Lahn napisał:
>> “The Starmaker” wrote:
>> > Equally important, Mr. Levenson writes, “Einstein had a perfectly fine
>> > grasp of . . . intellectual combat,” and knew he needed to make a
>> > splash to win people’s attention. Solving the mystery of Mercury’s
>> > orbit—something Newton’s revered theory couldn’t do—would produce an
>> > intellectual tsunami.
>> 
>> The precession of the perihelion of Mercury was the perfect test for the
>> general theory of relativity (GR) as a theory of gravity, because if GR
>> could explain and predict that precisely […]
> 
> Precise prediction is quite easy 100 years after something
> is measured.

Unfortunately, you still have no clue what you are talking about.

What you fail to understand is that, by *calculating* Mercury’s position 
using Newton’s law of universal gravitation, the result was always slightly 
off from where the planet was actually observed.  That puzzled researchers, 
first Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, because something was clearly missing.  One 
assumption made by astronomers in reply to his challenge, which I had been 
reminded of here, had been that Newtonian gravity is correct but there is a 
previously unknown moon of Mercury or another planet that is causing the 
perturbation of the orbit.  But no such moon or planet had been found.

And when Einstein used his field equations of GR for the calculations 
instead, without assuming an extra moon or planet, in 1915 (that was only 56 
years after Le Verrier’s discovery, not 100), Mercury’s position was 
*calculated* to be very closely where it was observed, much better than with 
Newtonian gravity theory.  Thus, GR was confirmed.

It was the first of many observations that confirmed GR.  Following ones 
include Eddington’s of the deflection of light by the Sun during the solar 
eclipse of 1919, and the Pound-Rebka experiment in 1959 that measured the 
gravitional redshift of light precisely as predicted by Einstein from the 
equivalence principle in 1907.  More recently, as you have been told 
numerous times before, satellite navigation like the GPS is based on the 
equations of both special relativity and GR (if it would not, all 
positioning data would be wrong), and we observe galaxies that formed 
shortly after the Big Bang based on general-relativistic redshift.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity>

> And about explaination - "Geometry!!!!  of SPACETIME!!!!!!!"

Get well soon.


PointedEars
-- 
Q: What did the nuclear physicist post on the laboratory door
   when he went camping?  
A: 'Gone fission'.
(from: WolframAlpha)

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  Re: Where is the center of the universe? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-20 23:48 -0800
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                Re: Where is the center of the universe? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-11-30 22:50 +0100
                Re: Where is the center of the universe? "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 16:27 -0800
                Re: Where is the center of the universe? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-01 07:51 +0100
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              Re: Where is the center of the universe? Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-11-25 18:47 +0100
                Re: Where is the center of the universe? Jack Monaco <jacksh@umbBertopal.org> - 2015-11-25 18:11 +0000
              Re: Where is the center of the universe? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-25 10:06 -0800
                Re: Where is the center of the universe? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 14:04 -0600
                Re: Where is the center of the universe? mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-11-25 23:09 -0800
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          Re: Where is the center of the universe? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-25 10:01 -0800
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