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Originally Posted by a-l-e-x
Mysteriously, four spacecraft that flew past the Earth have each displayed unexpected anomalies in their motions.
These newfound enigmas join the so-called "Pioneer anomaly" as hints that unexplained forces may appear to act on spacecraft.
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As I asked in the title to this post is the possibility of the anomaly limited only to unexplained forces?
The reason for this is that general relativity is well established to answer the nature of forces in what for most purposes could be calculated in static frames.
That leaves two further (possibly more) options and the first being that due to the velocity of the craft is there additional calculations required for dynamic changing reference frames ... which leads to the second option.
Yes I know I am a pain always coming back to this but ... is it space? Everything is explained in terms of geodesics or the stretch of space. Could there be a very slight underlying geodesic giving a layered effect to space which is only noticeable when the curvature is traversed at speed or calculated over time interval?