Advance of Mercury Perihelion Explained by Cogravity

TL;DR

This paper proposes that Mercury's perihelion advance can be explained by cogravity, an alternative to general relativity, with both theories matching observed measurements.

Contribution

It introduces cogravity as an alternative explanation for Mercury's perihelion precession, matching the predictions of general relativity.

Findings

Cogravity predicts Mercury's perihelion advance accurately.

Both cogravity and general relativity yield the same estimate.

The results match observed measurements.

Abstract

The theory of General Relativity explaines the advance of Mercury perihelion using space curvature and the Schwartzschild metric. We demonstrate that this phenomena can also be interpreted due to the cogravitational field produced by the apparent motion of the Sun around Mercury giving exactly the same estimate as derived from the Schwartzschild metric in general relativity theory. This is a surprising result because the estimate from both theoretical approaches match exactly the measured value. The discussion and implications of this result is out of the scope of the present work.