The Man
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Yes you are right, Einstein should know he also could ignore the SR effect, regarding the perihelion aspect. Strange he took a such idiotic decision then.
He didn't, again if I recall correctly the GR contribution to the perihelion sift is the result of a parallel transport of a vector around a closed loop in a curved space not pointing in the same direction on the completion of that loop. So it is GR and you remain the only one being "idiotic".
ETA: Perhaps this is Bjarne confusion (or part of it) by "space" above I'm referring to a general mathematical space which in the case of GR is where the space-time manifold is mapped. So the general mathematical reference to "a space" and even "a curved space" may be confusing him to think that it isn't space-time to which the curvature refers to in GR.
Bjarne you should understand that given the consistency of the speed of light (which you seem to agree with) then units of time can be converted to units of space. While the three spatial dimensions sum trigonometrically. The spatial and temporal dimensions sum hyperbolically (becouse of that speed limit of c). As a result we get, in units of distance, a space-time separation (or interval). Of particular importance for SR as that separation is the same for all inertial reference frames.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
See also Minkowski space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space
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Let me see if I get a little time the next few weeks, I can approve the GR math aspect a little, maybe enough to that you will understand that there is one more, much more serious option..
Take as much time as you need to actually get serious about the math.
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