Gravitational Doppler

Lester Zick wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:34:14 -0700, Lester Zick
wrote:


Gravitational Doppler
~v~~

We are well aware of gravitational lensing but there is another EM
analog associated with Newtonian universal gravitation as well:
gravitational doppler. In other words with latency extensions to
Newtonian universal gravitation we can explain planetary orbital
perihelion anomalies and calculate the Pioneer anomaly in simple,
direct terms.

To do this we only need to calculate Pioneer's velocity away from the
sun as a fraction of the speed of light and recognize that the effect
of the sun's gravitation will increase in proportion:

(Numbers used here were drawn from a column 1 article in the L. A.
Times of 12/21/2004 and are not exact)

Yearly distance traveled by Pioneer = 219,000,000 miles

Yearly discrepancy in distance = 8,000 miles

Ratio = ~ 27,375

speed of light = 186,289 miles per
second

Yearly distance traveled by light in one year=

186,289 mi/sec x 1440 min/day x 60 sec/min x 365 days/yr

Divided by yearly distance traveled by Pioneer

Ratio = ~ 26,825

A difference between the two ratios of 2% (27375 - 26,825 / 27,375)

QED

~v~~

In other words Pioneer travels about 7 miles per second away from the
sun and in doing so gravitation waves lengthen and their attractive
intensity is experienced longer in each wave. (In this respect unlike
repulsive waves like EM radiation, the effect of attraction increases
in gravitation with longer waves and decreases with shorter waves.)
And conversely the attraction of gravitation should decrease as the
sun is approached.

Clearly the Pioneer Anomaly is caused by what I call gravitational
doppler. This mechanical principle of gravitational doppler latency
added to Newtonian universal gravitation also underlies planetary
perihelion orbital anomalies except in such cases where a roughly
constant orbital distance is maintained there is no net change in
gravitational attraction: there is only an eccentric locus of force
offset to the receding hemisphere of the sun according to its own
rotational speed and density distribution. I have only been able to
estimate this degree of eccentricity to account for the anomalous
perihelion advance of the planet Mercury to a an order of magnitude of
2 however the rotational characteristics of the sun and distribution
of mass are extremely complex and difficult to estimate accurately.

As this thread looks pretty much moribund at this point

As I mentioned before, I am only subscribed
to sci.astro, I wouldn't have found this if you
hadn't mentioned it in that group.

I'd like to
add a couple final notes just to summarize.

For yearly distances outlined above:

D=219,000,000 miles d=8,000 miles discrepancy

Lester, we have already corrected that several
times, the anomaly is a constant acceleration
and therefore 'd' varies from year to year. It was
less than 250 miles in 1987 and over 9000 in
2004. The newspaper article you based this on
was not wrong but was incomplete. The rest of
your analysis is incorrect as a result.

George