Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Neutonian Gravity - Neutronian Gravity?
Newtonian gravity is very feeble force, ok? So to really see the imprint of general relativity, you have to go to situations where gravity is strong. But for most purposes, nutonian gravity works exquisitely well. The effect of mercury was tiny, which is whyi was so hard to detect in the first place. It's an empirical rule, but it works amazingly well to explain the properties of galaxies. You know, s it would say there's no dark matter in the galaxy. Instead, there is this new law of gravity, and it work beautifully at explaining what we observe about galaxy. One of the major telltale signs that led to the whole issue of dark matter
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