Mercury Perihelion Precession

43 Arcseconds per Century from Newton + Existing Terms — Showing 100 Years of Orbits

Δφ = 6πGM / c²p

EMERGES from ∮ (Hessian coupling) dθ — not assumed!

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e = 0.2056 — elliptical, precession visible

Orbital Parameters

Eccentricity (e) 0.2056
Semi-major axis 57.91 × 10⁹ m
Orbits per century 415.2

Precession (Computed)

Per orbit 0.103"
Per century 42.973"
Observed 42.980"

What you're seeing: The gold point cloud shows 415 orbits (100 years). The gray line is Newton's prediction (closed orbit). The cloud's thickness at perihelion = the 43"/century anomaly.

The Ladder

A field's local data is a ladder — value, slope, curvature. An orbit reads deepest: it feels the rungs interact.

Value background

Sets clock rates along the orbit — the time-dilation page's story, present here but not the signal.

Slope read

Newton's pull. It draws the closed ellipse — the orbit's whole shape, and none of its drift.

Curvature read × speed

Where the planet's speed meets the field's curvature, added up around one orbit: the ellipse fails to close by 43″ per century.

Historical Context

Le Verrier (1859) 43" anomaly found
Einstein (1915) 43" from GR
Our Framework 43" from Existing Terms ✓