8.6.2. Classical Methodology for Planet Orbits
As the two settings of Eq. (353) and Eq. (354) adopt for the Lagrangian Eq. (435), there will be
One could find that the main item of might sounds literally unreasonable, although the problem will not bring about great obstacles in process of calculation, because constant items in Eq. (444) will be eliminated by a further derivation. Never mind, we will promptly pick up the problem in the issues of time delay in next section.
Set
and with
and
it could be reformed as
To make further derivation, there is
For a planet orbit, the so-called angular momentum
, so that in right side of the equation the item
is a very small quantity than that of
, where,
in traditional settings. Zero order approximation of the equation is
It is the famous Binet equation. That has a solution
where,
and
is orbit eccentricity.
The item
could be replaced by the solution approximately that
Then, the Eq. (446) becomes
Considering the conditions of very small eccentricity, in right side, the last item as a variable in absolute value is far less than the third item, as well as the second item as constant is far less than the first item. There will be an approximate form of the equation
We could try to solve the split equations of Eq. (451) of small eccentricity that
with
and the other equation
with
There is the general solution
where
as absolute value is far less than
. By Taylor equation or sine equation of two angles, we have
So that
This equation presents the perihelion precession that
Thus, the precession in a revolution
as shown in
Figure 23
It should be noted, that there will be more conditions in which the Eq. (451) might be invalid in that the orbits may have greater eccentricities, such as some of asteroids and comets in solar system would be. In the case of greater eccentricities, one must entirely solve the Eq. (450) to gain more precise solutions. In fact, for the orbit of Mercury, it has an eccentricity of about 0.206 which implies a considerable deviation from the Eq. (451).
Neglecting the very small constant item in Eq. (450), it could be rewritten as
We could try to solve the split equations of Eq. (461) that the first one
with a solution
and the second one
with
and the third one
As the same form of the Eq. (403) with the solution Eq. (404), a special solution of Eq. (466) could be drawn as
Thus, we could give the general solution of Eq. (461) as
Because the last three items in right hand side are all small items than the first, neglecting the small constant item of third one, it is easy to gain an approximate solution as
This equation presents the orbit precession that
We have gained more precise solution with an additional orbit precession, which could be called in-revolution-vibrating precession.
The orbit precession could be rewritten as
in which the main precession is
and the in-revolution-vibrating precession is
Thus, the orbit precessions in a number
revolution at specific coordinate
could be calculated as
We have seen that the in-revolution-vibrating precessions are fixed on specific directions, so that the maximum precession may not happen at perihelion or aphelion. As aphelion of revolutions go from
to
, their aphelion in-revolution-vibrating precessions increase from zero to maximum, as shown in
Figure 24.
Surely, in-revolution-vibrating precessions are very small for planet orbits in solar system. However, they could be more obvious for motions in strong fields.
The most interesting is that the solution of in-revolution-vibrating precessions may have caused symmetry breaking. We can figure out the giant circulation as aphelion advances up to an entire circle, shown as
Figure 25. One can find out that the aphelion of revolutions goes densified at positions near to
and
, and goes loosened at positions near to
and
. It is a breaking of geometrical symmetry, because physical realities of one source field do not provide inhomogeneous conditions. Maybe the geometrical symmetry breaking caused by classical methodology is a self-falsification. If the methodology is reliable and its solution is correct, one can observe in-revolution-vibrating precessions in observations on strong field motions.
8.6.5. Renovated Equations for Un-Close-to-Light-Speed Massive Matters
Let us investigate a motion of a massive matter from any specific position
to another position
in one source fields. A matter moving in a gravitational field will be simplified to be a mass point. Considering a variable dynamic mass
, the gravity
Dynamic energy converted from gravitational potential by a free motion from
to
is
and the total energy
where, dynamic mass
and
correspond to possible velocities.
The function of total energy could be written as
Setting energy at position
as a known quantity, this equation could be derivated to be
It could be integrated to be
Then we gain the expression of variable mass that
where,
and
are dynamic mass corresponding to specific velocities, and
is defined as an imaginary concept corresponding to a reduction mass at a farthest position. This equation is general expression of mass variation with respect to the simplified expression in Eq. (379). Particularly for massive matters in some cases the mass
could have imaginary velocity. This equation could be called general mass equation in gravitational fields.
And we would like to carry out the expanded expression of gravity equation that
One could find that the relativistic mass may not keep mass conservation any more that may surprise us, but it really has been revealed in realities. This is another kind of comprehensive physics which I will not make further discussions in this section. Mass of matter does matter [
24]. The truths stay in realities.
Dynamic energy will be converted during a moving of a matter that
It should be highlighted that the expression of exponential function of mass variation of course could be used for light ray propagations and close-to-light-speed massive particles for higher accuracy analysis case in strong fields.
For massive matters, with special relativity, the equation of dynamic energy at a position
is
where,
, see Eq. (322).
In gravitational field the dynamic energy varies with positions that
Conversion energy could be positive case potential release or negative case potential withdrawn. However, dynamic energy will be always greater than zero, so that the variable will be limited in some specific cases that depends on initial conditions.
NB, for the convenience of expressions, the tensors of velocities, frequencies or the components maybe not written in tensor format anymore case they may not bring about confusions for understandings, for examples, and refer to the velocity at position and .
It should be further discussed here that we have seen dynamic mass energy may come from the release of gravitational potential. That will then perform as inertial mass and gravitational mass. If in two source system, they move closer or farther will cause mass increase or lose in that we incline to realize that potential does not act as mass. We are not sure that in this condition mass conservativeness is available or not. I am inclining to say no. Maybe this discussion involves with new physics. In this section, this controversy does not really matter. This discussion just presents the issue for more concerns.
With Eq. (509) and Eq. (513), velocity square is obtained that
Case the velocity
in a section of the trajectory is close to light speed so that
, there will be
where,
is a known position in the section. That will lead to the dynamics of close-to-light-speed particles in section 8.6.4.
Now we will be focusing on the motions more generalized than that of close-to-light-speed, the motions including them of un-close-to-light-speed.
The velocity composition for them could be expressed as
With angular momentum conservativeness, there is
where,
is radius of the perihelion and
is the corresponding velocity and that is vertical to the radius.
Of course, the angular momentum conservation for lower velocity motion will be the same as that of close-to-light-speed massive matters. But they are really different from that of light rays.
Together with the Eq. (514) and
, the Eq. (516) becomes
or
Setting
, it is
To derivate this equation once more, there will be
This is a general equation for the dynamics of massive matters moving in gravitational fields, no matter the velocity is close-to-light-speed or un-close-to-light-speed. One can solve the equation by numerical method or linearize the exponent items with nonlinear coefficients and solve it by segments, for example, the methodology of Newtonian tangent lines.
We can yet simplify the equations in some special conditions.
Case in the conditions that
and
, in which we know that
and
are both close to zero, the Eq. (522) could be rewritten in an approximate form that
or
Neglecting small items, it becomes
Setting
The Eq. (525) could be solved [
25] to be
where,
is orbit eccentricity.
With this solution being substituted back into Eq. (525), it is obtained that
For periodic motions, one-order approximation of Eq. (521) in the condition of
and
could be presented as
Neglecting very small items, it is
With Eq. (527), it becomes
where,
is orbit eccentricity.
where, is orbit eccentricity.
This equation is the velocity composition equation at the position of . The first three items correspond to the component of minus total systematic dynamic energy, in which, the previous one is of the initial condition and the other two comes from potential conversion. The last item is of the component from angular dynamic energy. The fourth item is of the component from radial dynamic energy.
So that the eccentricity could be written as
It should be highlighted that, in the motion with , one cannot apply one solution of the Eq. (527) into the entire trajectory because may vary in a long run. A solution could only be presented for a limited segment of the trajectory.
In conditions that the variation from
to
is considerable not very big, we will see that
. The Eq. (524) turns to be
With small items trimmed, there is
Case
is very close to 1.0, there is an approximation that
The equation would have a solution
where, is orbit eccentricity.
With this solution being substituted back into Eq. (535), it is obtained that
Sometimes, we prefer to pay more attentions on the performances on irrelativistic velocity motions in which
is far less than
and at the same time
, as that of the motions of planets in solar system. The dynamic equation Eq. (535) becomes
and
For planets in solar system,
is close to
, so that
The solution for the Eq. (541) as
where, is orbit eccentricity.
It could be calculated that
One will see that in this equation is a little greater than that in Eq. (458).
The eccentricity is as same as Eq. (540)
Some publications have given the following expression for eccentricity
where,
has been set the angular momentum,
is the long semi-major axis,
is gravitational constant and
is the mass of central source. But this is not a real solution for eccentricity, because that the
solved in Eq. (544) is
which is a reformation of Eq. (547). The eccentricity
cannot be solved with
by the Eq. (547).
The perihelion precession of solar planets could be presented as
or the precession per revolution as
That could be shown as in
Figure 26.
The most surprising is that this solution of perihelion precession is non-general-relativistic. It is a half of the value of the classical solution. Obviously, the classical solution is involved with errors in that once the relativistic mass being considered will absolutely lead to another result. It is practicable to carry out more experiments of motions closely around the Sun to verified the conclusions of Eq. (548).
One can focus on more sophisticated conditions for massive matters traveling in gravitational fields, especially for those motions in strong fields and with relativistic velocities.
Perhaps this result is the only one in which we have focused on that is in contradictions with the observations that have declared perihelion precessions of planets in solar system [
17]. Some observations on PSR J0737-3039A/B [
26,
27] have shown quite big deviations from classical predictions, which had been expected to have perihelion precession together with geodetic precession. Nevertheless, the experiment of Gravity Probe B [
28] shows that geodetic item has got accurate results while frame-dragging item has not, in which it could be recognized that the geodetic item is really the effect of special relativity. Observations on PSR 1913+16 [
29] have provided more evidences on energy conversions rather than perihelion precessions. The observations have not been well done for the verifications of perihelion precessions of S2 and S62 [
30,
31] in our galaxy. It could be expected that more observations on them and so on would be sponsored to furtherly verify the results of perihelion precessions.