Russell L. Collins
The GPB Probe - Alternate Predictions for the Precessions
Rates
A scalar alternative to GR gravity arises from the
recognition that mass is kinetic energy.
With \gamma=1/sqrt(1-\beta^2) and
\alpha=1+GM/rc^2, speed and gravity increase mass,
m*=(\gamma/\alpha)m. This shortens measured distance
and time by
\alpha/\gamma. This mass-metric relativity (MMR)
accounts easily for the 3 classical tests of GR.
The gpb 2003 expectations,
however, differ from those of GR, as depicted below.
The in-plane geodetic precession comes from the
differential shrinkage
(with speed) of the outer and inner points of
tangency of the orbit. The out-of-plane precession
is also geodetic, reflecting
the sun's perturbation. No Lense-Thirring precession is expected.
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