On the secular recession of the Earth-Moon system as an azimuthal gravitational phenomenon

Nyambuya, Golden Gadzirayi; Makwanya, T; Tuturu, B A; Tsoka, W.

doi:10.1007/s10509-015-2394-4

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“…We have argued in [19]- [21] that for a spinning gravitational body that has one spin axis, the resulting gravitational field is not a central field,…”

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Fundamental Physical Basis for Maxwell-Heaviside Gravitomagnetism

Nyambuya

2015

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Gravitomagnetism is universally and formally recognised in contemporary physics as being the linear first-order approximation of Einstein's field equations emerging from the General Theory of Relativity (GTR). Herein, we argue that, as has been done by others in the past, gravitomagnetism can be viewed as a fully-fledged independent theory of gravitomagnetism that can be divorced from Professor Einstein's GTR. The gravitomagnetic theory whose exposition we give herein is exactly envisioned by Professor Maxwell and Dr. Heaviside. The once speculative Maxwell-Heaviside Gravitomagnetic theory now finds full justification as a fully fledged theory from Professor José Hera's Existence Theorem which states that all that is needed for there to exist the four Maxwell-type field equations is that a mass-current conservation law be obeyed. Our contribution in the present work, if any, is that we demonstrate conclusively that like electromagnetism, the gravitomagnetic phenomenon leads to the prediction of gravitomagnetic waves that travel at the speed of light. Further, we argue that for the gravitational phenomenon, apart from the Newtonian gravitational potential, there are four more potentials and these operate concurrently with the Newtonian potential. At the end of it, it is seen that the present work sets the stage for a very interesting investigation of several gravitational anomalies such as the ponderous Pioneer Anomaly, the vexing Flyby Anomalies, the mysterious Anomalous Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies and as well, the possibility of the generation of stellar magnetic fields by rotating gravitational masses.

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“…We have argued in [19]- [21] that for a spinning gravitational body that has one spin axis, the resulting gravitational field is not a central field,…”

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confidence: 99%

Fundamental Physical Basis for Maxwell-Heaviside Gravitomagnetism

Nyambuya

2015

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“…In an attempt at an alternative solution to the existing gravitational anomalies, as has been done in e.g. Nyambuya (2010Nyambuya ( , 2015a; Nyambuya et al (2015), the Poission-Laplace equation: ∇ 2 Φg = 4πGϱ, can be solved to give an angular dependent gravitational potential, i.e. : Φg = Φg (r, θ) or Φg = Φg (r, θ, φ).…”

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On the plausible origins of the spiral character of galaxies

Nyambuya

2021

Open Astronomy

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We here-in demonstrate that the proposed hitherto unknown gravitomagnetic dark-force that hypothetically explains the Flat Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies — this same force, explains very well, the logarithmic and as-well, the barred spiral shapes of spiral galaxies. That is, much in line with Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950)’s 1946 ideas — albeit, on a radically and asymptotically different philosophical train of thought, the galactic disk is here assumed to be in a state of free-fall around the central bulge with the hypothetical gravitomagnetic dark-force being the dominant force determining all gravity-related dynamics of the disk, thus leading to logarithmic and barred spiral orbits, hence the shape of spiral galaxies.

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“…In this solution ( ) 5 r Φ , we shall drop the term whose coefficient is B. The reason for doing this is that this term will only add a phase factor 0 φ in the final solution-so, to save space, we have to drop it.…”

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“…The reason for doing this is that this term will only add a phase factor 0 φ in the final solution-so, to save space, we have to drop it. Now, let us set ( ) 5 5…”

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confidence: 99%