On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:52:13 +0000 (UTC), "Michael McNeil"
wrote:

"John Zinni" wrote in message
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I'm not aware of any problem in Newton with the centre of mass of the solar
system not being the centre of the Sun. Should fit perfectly well.
I read in Encyclopaedia Britannica that the errors in celestial dynamics
that produce the observed problem with Mercury could be explained by
different causes than the reasons Einstein came up with. It did list
them but I have never been able to locate the material since then.
Perhaps it is omitted from the Enc.Brit. disks.

Or perhaps later revisions eliminated the "different causes", when it
was figured out Einstein was most likely all along, and no other
theory explained the observations as accurately.

If you have the Encyc Brit. CD's, have you looked up Doppler yet?

Understand it yet?

Perhaps you want to explain to the denizens of sci.astro why light
from outside the Solar System behaves differently than light from
*within* the Solar System.

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