The Pioneers have brought to light an extremely interesting
phenomenon. By early 1980s, the accumulated data persistently showed
that the probes were off course. The discrepancy between radio telemetry and calculations was small - yet significantly larger than what experimental error would allow.
This
meant that probes were exposed to an influence of unknown force, which
was directed towards the Sun, just like the gravity itself, only much
smaller in intensity.
This Pioneer anomaly, was observed between
20-70 AU and found to be equivalent to constant acceleration of 8.74 ±
1.33 × 10−10 m/s2 directed towards the Sun. The distance of 20 AU is
significantly away from the Saturn orbit, and the only force beyond 20
AU that measurably affects the probes is gravity of the Sun. The
Pioneers themselves have no propulsion, or any mechanism that could
affect motion of the spacecrafts themselves.
Aside from many
guesses going in all directions, a question is raised often, is there
something new about gravity that we don't know?
A new theory from
masstheory.org website deals with synchronicity of interactions, which
is applicable to gravity. Underlying idea is that there is a time-lag in
all interactions, directly caused by finite speed at which information
travels. For example, when one body changes position, it takes some time
until this information reaches other bodies it interacts with. This
means that position of bodies in space is not known to them in real
time, causing them to affect each other with forces which are not
time-synchronized. When expressed mathematically, an expression can be
derived that has two addends - one is well known gravity force, and the
second has much smaller intensity, and depends on the speed of the
observed body.
This second force, unknown to theoretical physics
until now, makes the dynamic component of gravity, which perfectly
matches effect observed with Pioneer space probes.
Radio Telemetry
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