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From the final paragraph: “If somebody were to come to you and say, ‘The solar system doesn’t work on an inverse-square law, really it’s an inverse-cube law, b
by marze 10y ago
From the final paragraph:
“If somebody were to come to you and say, ‘The solar system doesn’t work on an inverse-square law, really it’s an inverse-cube law, but there’s dark matter that’s arranged just so that it always looks inverse-square,’ you would say that person is insane,” he said. “But that’s basically what we’re asking to be the case with dark matter here.”
Awesome point.
The McGaugh paper is really problematic for dark matter proponents. Amazing that that work wasn't done earlier.
- hvidgaard 10y agoThey do state: "They say the amount of dark matter in a galaxy’s halo would have precisely determined the amount of visible matter the galaxy ended up with when it formed". It's not a far fetched idea, but it is problematic because we know of zero such interactions.