Lunar Orbit Anomaly and GM=tc$^3$ Cosmology

ORAL

Abstract

Studies of the Moon at Johnson Space Center have confirmed a large anomaly in lunar orbital distance, with possible applications to Relativity. Our Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment has reported the Moon's semimajor axis increasing at 3.82 $\pm$ .07 cm/yr, anomalously high. If the Moon were gaining angular momentum at this rate, it would have coincided with Earth less than 2 Gyr ago. The Mansfield sediment (Bills, Ray 2000) measures lunar recession at 2.9 $\pm$ 0.6 cm/yr. Additional observations independently measure a recession rate of 2.82 $\pm$ .08 cm/yr. LLRE differs from independent experiments by 10 sigma. A cosmology where speed of light c is related to time t by GM=tc$^3$ has been suggested to predict the redshifts of Type Ia supernovae, and a 4.507034\% proportion of baryonic matter (Riofrio 2004). If c were changing in the amount predicted, lunar orbital distance would appear to increase by an additional 0.935 cm/yr. An anomaly in the lunar orbit may be precisely accounted for, shedding light on puzzles of ``dark energy.'' In Planck units this may be summarised as M=R=t.

Authors

  • Louise Riofrio

    University of Houston Clear Lake