The Machian contribution of the Universe to geodetic precession, frame dragging and gravitational clock effect

Gravitomagnetism resulting from SR has been applied to geodetic precession and frame dragging. The substantial contribution of the "fictitious" Coriolis force, due to the relative rotation of the rest of the Universe in the non inertial frame of the free falling but rotating satellite, has...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2013-09
Main Authors: Christillin, Paolo, Barattini, Lorenzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acceleration
Black holes
Centrifugal force
Coriolis force
Curvature
Free fall
Gravitational effects
Precession
Relativistic effects
Rotation
Universe
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Summary:Gravitomagnetism resulting from SR has been applied to geodetic precession and frame dragging. The substantial contribution of the "fictitious" Coriolis force, due to the relative rotation of the rest of the Universe in the non inertial frame of the free falling but rotating satellite, has to be taken into account, giving another quantitative confirmation of Mach's arguments and of the black hole nature of our Universe. Also the gravitational clock effect has an elementary prediction in the present post Newtonian formulation. A derivation of the centrifugal force from an effective vector formulation of gravitation is attempted. The centrifugal force appears to be due to a relativistic effect of the counter-rotating Universe. Gravitomagnetic energy effects, a million times stronger than the self energy effects responsible for curvature in the GR language, would thus produce the centrifugal acceleration. The Machian picture, already successful in the case of the Coriolis force, gets an additional circumstantial support.
ISSN:2331-8422