An attempt at a revival of Nordström's first theory of gravitation

This reading makes the attempt to revive Nordström (1912)'s relativistic theory of gravitation which was rejected on the basis of it contravening observational reality in that it [theory] failed to account for the periastron precession of the planet Mercury and as-well as the gravitational bending of starlight barely grazing the limb of a massive gravitational object such as the Sun. By way of referencing to earlier works (Nyambuya, 2015a; 2015c; Nyambuya and Simango, 2014; Nyambuya, 2010) and putting these works into perspective with the present endaevours, it is argued that Nordström (1912)'s forgotten theory is - in-principle - able to explain these dire shortcomings. With this having been done, the stage is then set for one to re-consider this long forgotten theory. As already demonstrated (in the readings Nyambuya, 2018a; 2018b; 2018c; 2018d; Nyambuya et al., 2018), there is not only merit in doing so - but great hope that, this reconsideration will be able to bear good fruit by way of explaining a number of inexplicable gravitational anomalies and puzzles.