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MOND is really a rule without a theory; it simply posits that there is an acceleration cutoff below which gravity does not obey an inverse square law. This conj
by idlewords 3y ago
MOND is really a rule without a theory; it simply posits that there is an acceleration cutoff below which gravity does not obey an inverse square law. This conjecture has been shown to have impressive predictive power, and it naturally explains a bunch of observations that are not obviously related and require fine-tuning in a dark matter paradigm. The blog linked here goes into a lot of detail on those observations, as well as observed phenomena that don't seem to fit well with MOND.
What the theory underlying MOND actually is is anyone's guess, and an area of active conjecture. But that's just as true for dark matter.
- SirIsaac 3y agoAnother equally plausible MOND model is one in which the gravitational constant G increases with distance. This is what is observed in the orbits of stars around the center of a galaxy. Of course, this is a pseudo-increase caused by, you guessed it, dark matter.