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Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down (www.vice.com)
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What's that saying again? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? I don't think we're quite there yet, but for all of you MOdified Newtonian Dynamics fans (and Dark Matter haters) out there here's a bit of good news.

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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just watched that video somewhat recently and couldn't understand that quote. There are a number of MOND models that literally don't involve dark matter at all -- no new particles added, no unexplained masses needed. So in that case, wouldn't "how we combine them" just be "set dark matter to 0 and use this different set of equations to solve for gravity in certain circumstances"?