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speleo_engr on Oct 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: First detection of the missing half of normal matt...

That's a theory called Modified Newton Dynamics (MOND).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics

wbhart on Oct 10, 2017 [–]

This theory (when appropriately hacked) describes rotation curves of galaxies extremely well. Unfortunately it doesn't work at larger scales. There are many nice videos on YouTube by Sean Carroll on MOND, which explain it's limits, albeit for the fairly educated layperson.

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