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Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down (www.vice.com)

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What's that saying again? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? I don't think we're quite there yet, but for all of you MOdified Newtonian Dynamics fans (and Dark Matter haters) out there here's a bit of good news.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, this is interesting. I found a slightly more in depth article on this: https://www.universetoday.com/162749/evidence-for-modified-gravity-found-in-the-motions-of-binary-stars/

It'd be amazing if this actually led to something MoNDish being the prevalent theory of gravity. Wouldn't that essentially explain dark matter?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It could explain the observations of the orbits of stars around galactic centers that currently can't be explained (stars move faster than current models predict), yes. It would be an alternate explanation for this anomaly than dark matter, which is the other proposed "if this exists, it would explain what we see" hypothesis.