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A New Approach to General Relativity

1961, Nature

Abstract

Here we present a new point of view for general relativity and/or space-time metrics that is remarkably different from the well-known viewpoint of general relativity. From this unique standpoint, we attempt to derive a new metric as an alternative to the Schwarzschild metric for any planet in the solar system. After determining the metric by means of some simple mathematical and physical manipulations, we used this alternative metric to recalculate the perihelion precession of any planet in the solar system and deflection of light that passes near the sun, as examples of this new viewpoint. While we obtained the result of classical general relativity for the perihelion procession, we found a slightly different result, relative to classical general relativity, for the deflection of light.

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