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Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

53 pointsby pseudolustoday at 12:52 PM22 commentsview on HN

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Lvl999Noobtoday at 1:59 PM

I thought newtonian gravity was already proven to be inaccurate with Einstein's Special Relativity (or General Relativity?) giving better results on cosmic scales (basically analogous to an approximation vs an exact formula)?

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GuB-42today at 1:33 PM

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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DivingForGoldtoday at 3:06 PM

just another nag screen ...

Michael666today at 2:41 PM

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