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MOND has nothing to say about the curvature of spacetime, since MOND is Newtonian (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics). It goes back to "F=ma and gravity is a force" a
by MathMonkeyMan 2y ago
MOND has nothing to say about the curvature of spacetime, since MOND is Newtonian (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics). It goes back to "F=ma and gravity is a force" and modifies the rules so that gravity grows weaker faster at a certain scale.
The fact that MOND fits a lot of the data troubled cosmologists, because they know that a General Relativistic theory is needed to explain pretty much the rest of gravity.
TeVeS is an extension to General Relativity that reduces to MOND in the non-relativistic limit. For comparison, General Relativity reduces to Newtonian gravity in the non-relativistic limit. The non-relativistic limit is when speeds and spacetime curvature are small.
- Gooblebrai 2y agoHow does MOND deal with the effects of time dilation and length contraction? Do we have to go back to Newton's time where there's a universal time?
- MathMonkeyMan 2y agoI don't know if Newtonian gravity can be reconciled with Special Relativity. First thought is "no, that's why Einstein arrived at General Relativity." But I'm not in the field, so I don't know.