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☿️ Mercury Perihelion Precession Lab: Einstein's 43 Arcsecond Test - 3D Rosette Orrery

A 3D orrery of Mercury's rosette orbit: cratered planet, orbiter, arc-second dial and perihelion flags show how general relativity turns the Newtonian ellipse into a slowly turning one.

Special Relativity3DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender⇄ 2D version

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A 3D orrery of Mercury's rosette orbit: cratered planet, orbiter, arc-second dial and perihelion flags show how general relativity turns the Newtonian ellipse into a slowly turning one.

Perihelion PrecessionGeneral RelativityMercurySchwarzschildBlender

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install