- cross-posted to:
- becomeme@sh.itjust.works
- science@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- becomeme@sh.itjust.works
- science@kbin.social
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.
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.