A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists

Re:A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists by mitchty on Monday February 27, 2017 @09:10AM (#13744262)

We already observe it via its gravitational effects on galaxies. Additionally, good luck getting "fixed equations" to agree with the reams of data.

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Re:A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists by jack9 on Monday February 27, 2017 @01:31PM (#13746535)

Isn't that what MOND is doing, to some degree?

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Re:A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists by mitchty on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @08:42PM (#13760185)

From what I have looked into, it breaks down with observed things on the fringes, aka black holes and supercluster type stuff.

This is the "silver bullet" if you will for a lot of these theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

It would be great if "just" modifying the equations works. But it has an uphill climb against observed data.

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