Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
30 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 5 comments

GuB-42 23 minutes ago
If you follow Sabine Hossenfelder's channel, she has a MONDOmeter. With MOND (modified Newtonian gravity) on one side and dark matter on the other side.

As new papers come out the needle goes back and forth, and I guess that she will make a new video if she hasn't already, with the needle moving one step towards dark matter.

I find it interesting how it doesn't seem to settle. Dark matter is still the favorite, but there is a lot of back and forth between "MOND is dead" and "we found new stuff we couldn't explain with dark matter, but it matches MOND predictions".

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PaulHoule 4 minutes ago
MOND does amazingly well at galactic rotation curves, less well at anything else. If you think dark matter started with Vera Rubin in 1966 MOND seems natural, but if you know that it started with Fritz Zwicky in 1933 than dark matter is easier to believe.
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ReptileMan 13 minutes ago
Once I joked that a lot of things in the universe make sense if you view it as a "simulation with optimizations like lazy loading".
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sebzim4500 55 seconds ago
Yeah until you get to quantum computing and then it seems as if the universe is doing enormously more work than you would think necessary.
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nathan_compton 2 minutes ago
Everything we don't understand we conceptualize using the most similar tools which we do have command over.
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