The Pioneer Anomaly or a ?Dissident' Perspective on Modern Physics
Vivian Pope
This paper is a critique of the present state of Theoretical Physics and its flagrant departure from the constraints of commonsense logic. As a contrast to this, an example is provided of a simple, unified, solution of two allegedly separate physical anomalies which have so far defeated every attempt at explanation in terms of standard orthodox Physics. This is to the extent that a NASA spokesman has said that in order to explain these anomalies, a whole ?new physics' might have to be contemplated.
These anomalies are the well-documented ?Pioneer anomaly' and the ?Missing Mass anomaly'. This paper counters conventional attempts at explanation in terms of intellectually elevated theories such as, for instance, those of ?cosmological expansion', ?dark matter', ?deviations from Einsteinian gravity' and so on. It also questions the Newtonian concept of an in vacuo ?gravitational force'.
