>>> Greetings Mike, Hi Steve, >>> I would suggest that you, like the scientist you possibly are, >>> read Paul Gerber's works. He preceded Einstein by 17 years in >>> advancing the reason I've had a look at it. He, like many scientists of the time, was specifically trying to account for Mercury's strange orbit and low and behold his theory predicted it (and made false predictions for everything else in the solar system). Mercury's strange orbit was just a corollary of relativity. >>> Einstein ONLY provided another "tool" or way of looking at >>> things...nothing more Philosophically that can be said of any theory, there is no absolute truth in science, only models that seem to fit observation. >>> ...and it is only useful for those that can't tolerate the old Rubbish, before relativity there was no consistent theory that agreed with all observations. Regards, Mike.