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Oh snap! Take that, dark matter!

Journal by Gaaark

"Dark matter cannot be used to fudge them because in order for dark matter to predict galaxy rotation it must stay spread out and therefore it cannot be squeezed into little wide binary systems."

https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2018/

His blog is an interesting read.
Dark matter is dying. RIP.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:41AM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:41AM (#740554) Journal

    Which is what I'm saying: Quantum Inertia works as a better theory than dark matter, and he just got funding in the millions to work at it.

    To me, work at and fund something that actually seems to work, rather than a kludge that only works in certain situations but does not solve all situations in which it was invoked to solve.

    It. Is. A. Kludge, not a solution.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 28 2018, @04:34AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 28 2018, @04:34AM (#741205) Journal
    You already had a journal about a galaxy where quantum inertia doesn't work (the one allegedly with no dark matter). And the theory does this weird circular argument where it talks about inertia in terms of acceleration without actually doing anything different from standard theory. My suspicion is that if we dug a bit, we'd find MONDO-style adaptions to make the theory fit observation - and in the present journal we don't actually know whether theory fits observation.