[math-fun] More grist for the mill re galaxies and gravity theory
27 May
2012
27 May
'12
2:52 a.m.
>old message: 1. http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0507619v1.pdf 2. http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0602519.pdf Newton gravity might naively be expected to work well with no need to use full blown general relativity (GR) for galaxies. But the first paper claims that is not true! Actually they say you DO need to use GR, and they do in a small-G approximate form, and find much less "dark matter" is needed to explain a bunch of galaxies. In fact in some cases none needed? But the second paper claims the first paper had errors but agrees GR is needed and says GR reduces amount of dark matter needed by 33% vs Newton. This however still leaves us needing a huge amount dark matter. So the whole "dark matter" problem is not solved, but major pieces of stupidity allegedly have been revealed. --just found this paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0508377v2.pdf which claims the original paper was seriously messed up since there was a huge unphysical singularity they did not notice. Another paper http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701019 questions more problems. Another http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601191 found even more problems. Another: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510750 So... all in all, sorry, it looks like this whole line of research was bullshit-dominated.
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