16 Jun
2008
16 Jun
'08
11:53 a.m.
Mercury experiences an element of orbital precession that cannot be predicted using Newton's laws. The General Theory of Relativity does, however, seem to explain the discrepency. Now read about the proximity of a newly-found extra-solar planet to it's star: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080616/sc_nm/space_planets_dc I'm wondering, without actually doing the math, about the relativistic effects on an orbital period of *4 days! * ** And we say that a year "passes like nothing" here on earth. Ha!