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    Sankar Hajra. Classical interpretations of relativistic precessionsJ. Chin. Phys. B, 2014, 23(4): 040402.
    Sankar Hajra. Classical interpretations of relativistic precessionsJ. Chin. Phys. B, 2014, 23(4): 040402.
  • Classical interpretations of relativistic precessions

    • Relativists have exposed various precessions and developed ingenious experiments to verify those phenomena with extreme precisions. The Gravity Probe B mission was designed to study the precessions of the gyroscopes rotating round the Earth in a nearly circular near-Earth polar orbit to demonstrate the geodetic effect and the Lense-Thirring effect as predicted by the general relativity theory. In this paper, we show in a very simple and novel analysis that the precession of the perihelion of Mercury, the Thomas precession, and the precession data (on the de Sitter and Lense-Thirring precessions) collected from the Gravity Probe B mission could easily be explained from classical physics, too.
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