Is Yilmaz right?

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General Relativity, it seems, can only account for 43 seconds of arc per century in the advance of Mercury's perahelion. It does not account for the 532 second of arc per century that was accounted for in the first place by Newtonian theory. This subtlety was ignored for over 80 years and continues to be largely ignored. The New Theory predicts that the perahelion advance of Mercury should be 532 + 43 seconds of arc per century which agrees with experiment. There are of course also the Newtonian precessions of eight other planets which Yilmaz' theory describes correctly whereas Einstein's theory cannot.

Table 2. Note Tabled responses did not cut & paste. I have restructured it here.

A Comparison of the New Theory of Gravitation with Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Theories of Gravity Einsteinian Gravity Yilmaz Theory of Gravity

.................................................. ....................................AE...Yilmaz
Local Conservation of Energy Momentum?...............................NO....YES
Gauge theory?........................................... ........................NO....YES
Definite stress-energy tensor exists?......................................NO... YES
Exact closed gravity wave solutions for arbitrary field strengths?.NO...YES
True Lagrangian exists?........................................... .............NO...YES
Interaction can be deduced from gauge principle?.....................NO.. YES
Strong principle of equivalence?............................ Not deducible/Deducible
Theory is quantizable?...................................... ...................NO....YES
Can be interpreted geometrically as a curvature theory?............YES...YES
Solutions with space-time singularities?...................................Y ES...NO
Compatible with all observations?..................................... ......YES?.YES?
N- Body solutions discovered?....................................... .........NO...YES
Field equations and equations of motion derived or postulated? Postulated Derived from special relativity, equivalence principle and action principle.
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something new?

No.

The GR correction to the Mercury perihelion problem was not a replacement, but simply a correction to account for the difference between observed and Newtonian prediction. In other words, Newton's gravity was off by 43 seconds and GR makes up the difference.

General Relativity, it seems, can only account for 43 seconds of arc per century in the advance of Mercury's perahelion. It does not account for the 532 second of arc per century that was accounted for in the first place by Newtonian theory.

This is where Yilmaz went wrong.