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RE: No dark matter?
February 25, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Is there an axiv.org link?
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RE: No dark matter?
February 25, 2011 at 6:12 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2011 at 6:31 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The theory has been around since the 1980s. It's not surprising that it could be made to predict reasonably well the galaxy rotation curve since that is precisely what it was explicitly crafted to predict. The problem with this theory is it hasn't yet acuurately predict anything it wasn't explicitly crafted to predict, as any theory with any fundamental basis in physical reality should be able to do.
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RE: No dark matter?
March 5, 2011 at 11:40 am
The real problem with this seems to me to be that, as Chuck says, it fits the data by construction.
Incidentally, when Einstein was developing GR, there was a theory around the time about modified gravity too. The only real problem with Newtonian gravity at the time was that it incorrectly predicted the precession of the perihelion of Mercury. So the modification made was that instead of gravity going as the inverse square of the distance, it went as the inverse of the distance to the power of 2.000002 (maybe not the correct number of zeroes there, but you get the idea). This fitted the data quite well, but it's a horrible ad hoc "solution".
This idea to explain rotation curves seems like a similar kind of ad hoc solution to me.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
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RE: No dark matter?
March 6, 2011 at 11:12 am
Has it made any acurate predictions?
or is it just reverse engineered to meet the facts?
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RE: No dark matter?
March 6, 2011 at 11:13 am
This thread confuses and infuriates me!
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RE: No dark matter?
March 7, 2011 at 7:57 am
It really only confuses me. The "infuriates" part was just a line from Futurama. haha
