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It's the precession of Mercury's perihelion, not the eccentricity of its orbit: apart from the perihelion precession issue for Mercury and, to a lesser extent,
by conistonwater 10y ago
It's the precession of Mercury's perihelion, not the eccentricity of its orbit: apart from the perihelion precession issue for Mercury and, to a lesser extent, Venus, the solar system is quite Newtonian. Also, the first lensing experiment measured the amount of light deflection by the sun, not galaxies.
- gh1 10y agoThanks. I actually meant eccentricity = craziness, not in the mathematical sense. You are absolutely right about the Eddington experiment.
- conistonwater 10y agoThat's seriously confusing, then, it's such a standard mathematical term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity
- gh1 10y agoYou are right. I changed it. Hopefully, its not confusing any more.