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> So you need MOND and something else, which is two things, which Occam's Razor disfavors anyway. Misapplication of Occam's razor. LCDM also needs multiple thi
by naasking 2y ago
> So you need MOND and something else, which is two things, which Occam's Razor disfavors anyway.
Misapplication of Occam's razor. LCDM also needs multiple things: non-interacting dark matter + a fine-tuned distribution of DM that cannot be a priori predicted from any observations, but only post-hoc fitted after observation. By contrast, MOND has successfully predicted rotation curves (and lots more) from the visible matter alone.
You can't naively apply Occam's razor to two theories that both fail some set of observations. However, as a scientific theory, MOND has a better track record of successful predictions.