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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2020

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Scientists and philosophers of science are most impressed by theories that make successful, novel predictions: that predict surprising facts in advance of their experimental or observational confirmation. There is a theory of cosmology that has repeatedly been successful in this privileged way, but it is not the standard, or 𝚲CDM, model. It is Mordehai Milgrom’s MOND theory (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics). Unlike the standard model, MOND does not postulate the existence of dark matter. Observations that are explained in the standard model by invoking dark matter are explained in MOND by postulating a change in the laws of gravity and motion.

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A Philosophical Approach to MOND
Assessing the Milgromian Research Program in Cosmology
, pp. ix - xiv
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Preface
  • David Merritt
  • Book: A Philosophical Approach to MOND
  • Online publication: 20 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108610926.001
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  • Preface
  • David Merritt
  • Book: A Philosophical Approach to MOND
  • Online publication: 20 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108610926.001
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  • Preface
  • David Merritt
  • Book: A Philosophical Approach to MOND
  • Online publication: 20 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108610926.001
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