From: Robert McElwaine <rem5@sawdust.cvfn.org>
Newsgroups: sci.astro
Subject: LARSONIAN Relativity
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 02:13:06 +0100


                             LARSONIAN Relativity
          
               The perihelion point in the orbit of the planet Mercury 
          has been observed and precisely measured to ADVANCE at the 
          rate of about 574 seconds of arc per century.  About 531 
          seconds of this advance are attributed via calculations to 
          gravitational perturbations from the other planets (Venus, 
          Earth, Jupiter, etc.).  The remaining 43.5 seconds of arc are 
          being used to help "prove" Einstein's "General Theory of 
          Relativity". 
    
               But the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson achieved results 
          CLOSER (43.35 seconds) to the observed 43.5 seconds than 
          "General Relativity" can (42.9 seconds), by INSTEAD using 
          "SPECIAL Relativity".  In one or more of his books, he 
          applied a variation of the LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION on the HIGH 
          ORBITAL SPEED of Mercury.  This is also described on page 63 
          of "THE UNMYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE: An Introduction to D. B. 
          Larson's NEW UNIFIED GENERAL THEORY", by Ronald W. Satz, 
          1971, which is an EXCELLENT 80-page SUMMARY of Larson's 
          Theory.  The technique described in this booklet should be 
          used to calculate the apsidal motion of the binary system "DI 
          HERCULIS", which seems to DISPROVE Einsteins "General Theory 
          of Relativity" by showing an apsidal motion of only 1.05 
          degrees per century instead of the 4.27 degrees per century 
          predicted by "General Relativity".  (See "ASTRONOMY", 
          November 1995, pages 54-59, "Was Einstein Wrong? The Mystery 
          of DI Herculis".)
          
               Larson TOTALLY REJECTED "General Relativity" as another 
          MATHEMATICAL FANTASY.  He also REJECTED most of "Special 
          Relativity", including the parts about "mass increases" near 
          the speed of light, and the use of the Lorentz Transform on 
          doppler shifts, (Those quasars with red-shifts greater than 
          1.000 REALLY ARE MOVING FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT, 
          although most of that motion is away from us IN TIME.). 
     
               In Larson's comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the 
          physical universe, there are THREE dimensions of time instead 
          of only one.  But two of those dimensions can NOT be measured 
          from our material half of the physical universe.  The one 
          dimension that we CAN measure is the CLOCK time.  At low 
          relative speeds, the values of the other two dimensions are 
          NEGLIGIBLE; but at high speeds, they become significant, and 
          the Lorentz Transformation must be used as a FUDGE FACTOR. 
          [Larson often used the term "COORDINATE TIME" when writing 
          about this.] 
    
     
               Please read Physicist Dewey B. Larson's books "NOTHING 
          BUT MOTION" and "THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION", and the 80-page 
          summary cited above.


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                                   Robert E. McElwaine
                                   B.S., Physics and Astronomy, UW-EC