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He’s Up… He’s Down… He’s Up… He’s Down – Has MOND Finally Delivered a Knockout Blow to Dark Matter

Posted by Guy Pirro 07/13/2024 05:37PM

He’s Up… He’s Down… He’s Up… He’s Down – Has MOND Finally Delivered a Knockout Blow to Dark Matter

The vociferous debate between the dark matter community and the MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics or Modified Gravity) community continues. Like two sluggers in the middle of the ring delivering blows to each other in a boxing match, this fight has raged on for years. Now, in a breakthrough discovery that challenges the conventional understanding of cosmology, scientists at Case Western Reserve University have unearthed new evidence that could reshape our perception of dark matter. According to standard Newtonian gravity, stars on the outer edges of a galaxy should be slower due to diminished gravitational pull. This has never been observed, leading to the inference decades ago of an invented concept called dark matter, which has yet to be proven to exist. But even if it did exist, dark matter halos should come to an end at some point, so rotation curves should not remain flat indefinitely. This new analysis at Case Western Reserve defies this expectation, providing a startling revelation: The influence of what we call dark matter extends far beyond previous estimates, stretching at least a million light-years from the galactic center. Surprisingly, rotation curves of galaxies remain flat for millions of light years with no end in sight. Such a long range effect may indicate that the concept of dark matter—as we understand it—might not exist at all.


Comments:

  • jarnagin [Richard Jarnagin]
  • 07/17/2024 02:45AM
Dark matter will be shown to be just another case of our misunderstanding of how the Universe works. Why should gravity, the warpage of space-time, be the same on a galactic scale as it is in our everyday experience. We make assumptions in physics that may not be correct.

  • lwbehney [Laurence Behney]
  • 09/08/2024 07:39PM
Does electric charge attraction also drop off at 1/R at some distance and is this a gradual change? So does MOND tell us at what distance, the 1/(RxR) force changes to a 1/R force and is this gradual? I personally thinks it makes sense to suppose that there is a minimal gravitational force at even an infinite distance. In other words, gravity is quantized and the quantum number starts at one unit of force; it never disappears to zero. If this is correct, then the implication that the current hypothesis that the Universe is endlessly expanding forever, is incorrect.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle inequality demonstrates two objects can only get so close before the momentum range becomes colossal; if we are not allowed a zero distance between two points, then perhaps we are not allowed a zero gravity either.