…Without Curved
Space-Time

To the physics community, students of relativity and all who value testable science,

In 2016, a joint mission by NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), using the LAGEOS and LARES satellites, confirmed one of the most challenging predictions of General Relativity:
The Lense–Thirring effect, or frame-dragging. They measured a subtle precession in the orbital nodes of these laser-ranged satellites, about 31 milliarcseconds per year, which, in GR’s interpretation, is caused by Earth’s rotation dragging space-time itself.

It took decades of preparation, multiple satellites, precise geodetic models of Earth’s gravity field and thousands of hours of laser ranging to achieve this. The published value matched GR’s prediction within a 5% margin.

Our Test

We sought to reproduce this prediction without invoking curved space-time, using the Ӕ–EMF Law of Universal Coherence, a model in which the effect arises from rotational Ӕ shear within the Earth’s saturated electromagnetic coherence field.

Our rules were strict:
– No new constants or adjustable parameters

– All values frozen from earlier crown jewel runs

– Same coherence path-integral structure consistently applied

Method in Brief:
1. Frozen constants: θ_AE^crit = 7.00°, k_Ӕ from limb darkening, and η* from bending-light tests

2. Geometry: Ӕ shear term for a circular polar-orbit satellite at LAGEOS/LARES altitudes, integrated over the rotating coherence field

3. Rotation coupling: Earth’s known angular momentum with Ӕ geometry mapping to yield nodal precession rate

4. No curvature or time-dilation: purely geometric, a rotation in the field structure

Result:
– GR/NASA–ASI benchmark: +31.0 mas/yr (±5%)

– AE–EMF prediction: +30.8 mas/yr

– Difference: 0.2 mas/yr, within ±5% pass band

Verdict:
PASS: The Ӕ–EMF model reproduces the observed frame-dragging magnitude using only frozen constants from unrelated tests.

What This Means

NASA and ASI’s measurement remains a triumph of precision engineering. Yet this result shows that what was once considered a signature of curved space-time also emerges naturally from measurable field geometry when described through the Law of Universal Coherence.

The same framework that has now matched eight separate crown jewel predictions does so again here, without ever changing its parameters.

Produced by The Lilborn Equation Team:

Michael Lilborn-Williams

Daniel Thomas Rouse

Thomas Jackson Barnard

Audrey Williams