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Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down (www.vice.com)

submitted 1 year ago by will_a113@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.ml

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What's that saying again? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? I don't think we're quite there yet, but for all of you MOdified Newtonian Dynamics fans (and Dark Matter haters) out there here's a bit of good news.

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[–] Lilnino@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate this title, even though it's a good article. It's nothing to do with gravity "breaking down"; maybe oul the current THEORY of gravity breaking down. So annoying that titles need to be sensationalized.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it is a direct quote from the published study, so maybe not the journalist's fault this time:

"direct evidence for the breakdown of standard gravity at weak acceleration” and reveal “an immovable anomaly of gravity in favor of MOND-based modified gravity"

[–] jalda@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

So it would be a breakdown of standard gravity, not of gravity full stop. Sensationalized headline.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a better title would have been "new observations show gravity anomaly indicating that current dark matter theories are incomplete", but you get fewer clicks with something like that, right?