2008

The MOND paradigm

Milgrom, Mordehai

Understand

I review briefly different aspects of the MOND paradigm, with emphasis on phenomenology, epitomized here by many MOND laws of galactic motion--analogous to Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

  • I then comment on the possible roots of MOND in cosmology, possibly the deepest and most far reaching aspect of MOND.
  • This is followed by a succinct account of existing underlying theories.
  • I also reflect on the implications of MOND's successes for the dark matter (DM) paradigm: MOND predictions imply that baryons alone accurately determine the full field of each and every individual galactic object.

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