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A Philosophical Approach to MOND

Assessing the Milgromian Research Program in Cosmology

Av David Merritt

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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 and the standard model have had successes and failures - but only MOND has repeatedly predicted observational facts in advance of their discovery. In this volume, David Merritt outlines why such predictions are considered by many philosophers of science to be the 'gold standard' when it comes to judging a theory's validity. In a world where the standard model receives most attention, the author applies criteria from the philosophy of science to assess, in a systematic way, the viability of this alternative cosmological paradigm.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-04-30
  • Mått: 174 x 250 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 670 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 282
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108492690
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David Merritt was a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and before that at Rutgers University, New Jersey, whose research interests include galaxy dynamics and evolution, supermassive black holes, and computational astrophysics. He is a former Chair of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society and is a founding member of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation at RIT. He is author of the graduate textbook Dynamics and Evolution of Galactic Nuclei (2013).

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'This book gives a very careful analysis of the relation of theory to observational confirmation in astrophysics and cosmology, using as a case study the succession of MOND models proposed by Milgrom. Using Lakatos's approach, which is contrasted with Popper's proposals, the book focuses with exemplary clarity on the question of to what extent theories can be taken to be validated by observational tests. This is a great contribution to the philosophy of cosmology, which will also make the reader appreciate the strength of Milgrom's theory in terms of having, in advance, made predictions which were subsequently confirmed.' George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town

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