Study Plunges Standard Theory Of Cosmology Into Crisis

On 06/11/2013 2:24 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
It is good the professor mentions: "underlying physics'
We need a _mechanism_ as even MOND is just a formula.

Sure, you observe some effect, and quantify it so you end up with an equation that for most
purposes, within your experimental 'zone' describes and predicts things to within some
small error.

But we really need to KNOW what gravity is, what causes it, how it is transferred, by what,
how fast, etc.

Lee Smolin's book, The Trouble with Physics, mentioned a tantalizing
relationship between MOND's critical acceleration constant, and the
radius of Dark Energy's effect. Specifically it suggests that Dark
Energy's effective radius is 10 billion LY's, which corresponds to an
inverse relationship between MOND's critical acceleration and the speed
of light! That could be a total coincidence, but it's a spectacular
coincidence. Again, it's just a bunch of formulas, and finding a pattern
in those formulas, with no underlying understanding of why it may work.
The underlying understanding has yet to come.


Yousuf Khan