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Fifty years ago (m/l), Bob Dicke and Carl Brans developed a S+T gravity model.
Concurrently, Dicke had a project to look for a small solar oblateness. He wanted the precession of Mercury caused by the scaler part of gravity to be offset by the opposite precession caused by oblateness.
In the last ten years, a scaler field has been suggested to the dark (matter? or energy?), but I have seen nothing about that field causing a part of Mercury's precesion.
Is the effect of a scaler suggested today much less than the effect caused by dicke/brans' scaler? Please help me to understand the effects of today's sacler.
Thanks, Neil
Concurrently, Dicke had a project to look for a small solar oblateness. He wanted the precession of Mercury caused by the scaler part of gravity to be offset by the opposite precession caused by oblateness.
In the last ten years, a scaler field has been suggested to the dark (matter? or energy?), but I have seen nothing about that field causing a part of Mercury's precesion.
Is the effect of a scaler suggested today much less than the effect caused by dicke/brans' scaler? Please help me to understand the effects of today's sacler.
Thanks, Neil