New answers tagged modified-gravity
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How does MOND explain ‘low dark matter’ galaxies?
Last I saw the two most common ways are:
Modify the theory. This is how (extensions of) MOND explain the cosmic microwave background.
Keep the theory, but say it is non-visible ordinary matter ...
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Can Dark Matter be...(massive) gravitons?
It is still beyond the range of our current detectors to verify whether or not the graviton could have a non-zero mass.
The honest answer is that no one actually knows yet. But should the graviton ...
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References on Starobinsky inflation and quadratic gravity in cosmology
I can recommend the original paper of Starobinsky: “A New Type of Isotropic Cosmological Models Without
Singularity,” Phys. Lett. B 91 (1980) 99–102.
If you are interested about its predictions on ...
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