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Line 111: − − :Increasingly precise measurements of the precession demonstrate that it conflicts with General Relativity, despite claims of relativists for decades that it predicted the precession accurately in the amount of <math>3{}v^2/c^2</math> revolutions per planet's "year", where <math>v</math> is the planet's average orbital speed.<ref>That is a simple approximation, designed to relate the precession to the planet's speed relative to the speed of light. A more accurate approximation is <math>\frac{3GM}{c^2 a(1-e^2)}</math>, where a is the semi-major axis and e is the eccentricity.</ref> The conflict is greater than the margin of error, and many relativists avoid the discrepancy rather than address it.
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Revision as of 01:38, September 7, 2018
, 01:38, September 7, 2018No one claimed that the 3 v^2/c^2 formula was accurate. It was a "quick and dirty" approximation. In any case, the whole issue is discussed in more detail in a later section.
:No Nobel Prize was was awarded for this.
:No Nobel Prize was was awarded for this.
==Experimental and Observational Evidence Confirming Relativity==
==Experimental and Observational Evidence Confirming Relativity==