Author(s)

Weihong Qian^1,2*

¹School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China.
²Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, CMA, Guangzhou, China.

Although Newtonian gravity and general relativity predicted the precession of Mercury perihelion historically, many improved methods continue to predict the precession of Mercury during recent decades of years. Uncertainties in various predictions and observations suggest that the attribution of Mercury’s precession is still not well understood. This paper argues that the cause of Mercury’s precession is not gravity, but the inertia of material motion left over from the formation of the solar system. According to this inertia theory, the planetary precession is associated with the ratio of total mass-energy density of the system to the mass-energy of the Sun and its change over time. If other factors are not changed with time, the perihelion precession of planets per orbit is proportional to his distance relative to the Sun. The conclusions of this paper can provide more effective factor considerations for the complete description of various astronomical events and phenomena using general relativity equations.

Mercury, Perihelion Precession, Attribution, Newtonian Gravity, General Relativity, Inertia of Material Motion

Qian, W. (2023) On the Attribution of Mercury’s Perihelion Precession. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 11, 1359-1373. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2023.115088.