Journal of Modern Physics, 2015, 6, 1195-1206
Published Online August 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jmp
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2015.69124
How to cite this paper: Nyambuya, G.G. (2015) Four Poission-Laplace Theory of Gravitation (I). Journal of Modern Physics, 6,
1195-1206. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2015.69124
Four Poission-Laplace Theory of
Gravitation (I)
Golden Gadzirayi Nyambuya
Department of Applied Physics, National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Republic of
Zimbabwe
Email: physicist.ggn@gmail.com , golden.nyambuya@nust.ac.zw
Received 10 October 2014; accepted 1 August 2015; published 5 August 2015
Copyright © 2015 by author and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY).
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Abstract
The Poisson-Laplace equation is a working and acceptable equation of gravitation which is mostly
used or applied in its differential form in Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic (MHD) modelling of e.g. mole-
cular clouds. From a general relativistic standpoint, it describes gravitational fields in the region
of low spacetime curvature as it emerges in the weak field limit. For non-static gravitational fields,
this equation is not generally covariant. On the requirements of general covariance, this equation
can be extended to include a time-dependent component, in which case one is led to the Four
Poisson-Laplace equation. We solve the Four Poisson-Laplace equation for radial solutions, and
apart from the Newtonian gravitational component, we obtain four new solutions leading to four
new gravitational components capable (in-principle) of explaining e.g. the Pioneer anomaly, the
Titius-Bode Law and the formation of planetary rings. In this letter, we focus only on writing down
these solutions. The task showing that these new solutions might explain the aforesaid gravita-
tional anomalies has been left for separate future readings.
Keywords
Astrometry, Celestial Mechanics, Ephemerides, Planets and Satellites: Formation
1. Introduction
“Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that;
He is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.”
—Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
The Azimuthally Symmetric Theory of Gravitation (herafter ASTG-model) set out in [1] [2] and preliminarily