A Philosophical Approach to Mond: Assessing the Milgromian Research Program in Cosmology

by David Merritt

Dark matter is a fundamental component of the standard cosmological model, but in spite of four decades of increasingly sensitive searches, no-one has yet detected a single dark-matter particle in the laboratory. An alternative cosmological paradigm exists: MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics). Observations explained in the standard model by postulating dark matter are described in MOND by proposing a modification of Newton's laws of motion. Both MOND...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110849269X
• ISBN13: 9781108492690
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.8"