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Resurrecting Newton to do away with dark matter

A review paper in this week's issue of Science looks at the current state of MOND theories, which seek to resurrect Newtonian gravity and are the chief competitors to the ΛCDM cosmological model, which relies on dark matter and dark energy. The verdict... ...full story at digg

from digg on Sat, Nov 07 2009

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