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It's seems that the authors of the paper all come from the LCDM/Dark Matter observational testing community, this isn't a paper by MOND theorists. They were qui
by dogma1138 6y ago
It's seems that the authors of the paper all come from the LCDM/Dark Matter observational testing community, this isn't a paper by MOND theorists.
They were quite likely looking for evidence of dark matter with the ESO survey and found something else.
Right or wrong, this is the definition of good science.
- ChrisSD 6y agoThe OP was about how pop-sci reports the paper, not the science itself.
- bosswipe 6y agoWhich is a boring meta criticism that adds nothing.
- philosopher1234 6y agoI didn’t find it boring or useless. I found it quite interesting. No need to be so negative bosswipe
- bosswipe 6y agoThe other comment threads in here are discussing the actual experiment and theories. But this thread is at the top taking up a bunch of the oxygen and it's just repeating tired old media criticisms that we've all heard before. The actual experiment is way more interesting.
- anigbrowl 6y agoAs of right now it's the top comment even though it's actually misleading, thus contributing the dumbing-down phenomenon its author complains about.
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- ineptech 6y agoTFA ends with, "It’s an intriguing result, and it may lend some weight to the MOND hypothesis for further study. But it’s important to keep in mind that so far the bulk of the evidence still points towards dark matter, and it’ll take much more work to topple that hypothesis entirely."
- cbkeller 6y agoVera Rubin would approve. Despite making a lot of the critical rotation rate measurements on spiral galaxies [1,2,3], it seems as though she was never particularly happy with the interpretation of this result as dark matter: > "If I could have my pick, I would like to learn that Newton's laws must be modified in order to correctly describe gravitational interactions at large distances. That's more appealing than a universe filled with a new kind of sub-nuclear particle." [4] [1] http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1970ApJ...159..379R/0000383.000.html http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1970ApJ...159..379R/... [2] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980ApJ...238..471R7 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980ApJ...238..471R7 [3] https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.astro.39.1.137 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.astro.... [4] https://scientificwomen.net/women/rubin-vera-86 https://scientificwomen.net/women/rubin-vera-86