Classical interpretations of relativistic precessions

作     者：Sankar Hajra 

作者机构：Indian Physical Society 2A & 2B Raja S. C. Mallick Road 

出 版 物：《Chinese Physics B》 (中国物理B（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第23卷第4期

页      面：147-156页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 070402[理学-天体测量与天体力学] 070201[理学-理论物理] 0704[理学-天文学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

主　　题：Thomas precession precession of planetary orbits de Sitter precession Lense-Thirring precession 

摘      要：Relativists have exposed various precessions and developed ingenious experiments to verify those phenomena with extreme precisions. The Gravity Probe B mission was designed to study the precessions of the gyroscopes rotating round the Earth in a nearly circular near-Earth polar orbit to demonstrate the geodetic effect and the Lense-Thirring effect as predicted by the general relativity theory. In this paper, we show in a very simple and novel analysis that the precession of the perihelion of Mercury, the Thomas precession, and the precession data （on the de Sitter and Lense-Thirring precessions） collected from the Gravity Probe B mission could easily be explained from classical physics, too.