Budding, E.Yilmaz, O.2025-01-272025-01-2720091897-2357https://doi.org/10.2478/v10005-009-0008-zhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/13152We review a compressive model for material inertia and the effect of gravitation which follows naturally from it. We show that this model is consistent with the relativity principle, and suggest how a slight departure in the observed advance of the perihelion of the orbit of Mercury could put an upper limit on the Laplace screening parameter h.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessArticle6446147310.2478/v10005-009-0008-z2-s2.0-76149121512N/A