Re:Is there a 5th fundamental force of nature?
by SAI_Peregrinus on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:55AM
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"Dark Matter" is a name for the observations of the discrepancy. It's not a theory in and of itself. Lots of the theories trying to explain the observed discrepancy (dark matter) include that in their name (like the λCDM theory), others (like MOND) don't. They're all trying to explain the same observations though, so they're all theories of "dark matter".
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Re:Is there a 5th fundamental force of nature?
by uoaei on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:20PM
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I don't think it's helpful to lump in MOND under the "dark matter" umbrella, and no one else aside from you seems to do that. It's specifically not about matter nor energy (i.e., QFT) in every formulation that's out there.
Further, MOND does try to explain the discrepancy with articulated theories, just in ways that don't conform to the assumed supremacy of QFT-based explanations.