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A geometric illustration of the Lorentz transformations is given. According to similarity between space and time and correspondence between a ruler and a clock, like the division number in a moving ruler, the tick number of a moving clock…

General Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Wang Guowen

Milgrom's modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) has done a great job on accounting for the rotation curves of a variety of galaxies by assuming that Newtonian dynamics breaks down for extremely low acceleration typically found in the galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-01 Ling-Jun Wang

From the Physics point of view, time is now best described through General Relativity, as part of space-time which is a dynamical object encoding gravity. Time possesses also some intrinsic irreversibility due to thermodynamics, quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-30 Florian Girelli , Stefano Liberati , Lorenzo Sindoni

In this work we show that the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment in vacuum is deeply connected with the notion of time. It can be deduced without any mathematics only from the assumption that all good clocks can be used to…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Vasco Guerra , Rodrigo de Abreu

The missing mass problem has not been solved decisively yet. Observations show that if gravity is to be modified, then the MOND theory is its excellent approximation on galactic scales. MOND suggests an adjustments of the laws of physics in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-22 Michal Bílek , Ingo Thies , Pavel Kroupa , Benoit Famaey

Galactic systems, and the Universe at large, exhibit large dynamical anomalies: The observed matter in them falls very short of providing enough gravity to account for their dynamics. The mainstream response to this conundrum is to invoke…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-25 Mordehai Milgrom

The observed dynamics of gas and stars on galactic and larger scales cannot be accounted for by self-gravity, indicating that there are large quantities of unseen matter, or that gravity is non-Newtonian in these regimes. Milgrom's MOdified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Anthony Aguirre , Joop Schaye , Eliot Quataert

We show that the Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) regime can be fully recovered as the weak-field limit of a particular theory of gravity formulated in the metric approach. This is possible when Milgrom's acceleration constant is taken as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Mendoza , T. Bernal , J. C. Hidalgo , S. Capozziello

Galaxies are the basic structural element of the universe; galaxy formation theory seeks to explain how these structures came to be. I trace some of the foundational ideas in galaxy formation, with emphasis on the need for non-baryonic cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Stacy McGaugh

I provide a derivation of some characteristic effects of Milgrom's modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) from a fractional version of Newton's theory based on the fractional Poisson equation. I employ the properties of the fractional Laplacian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrea Giusti

A general account of MOND theory is given. I start with the basic tenets of MOND, which posit departure from standard dynamics in the limit of low acceleration -- below an acceleration constant a0 -- where dynamics become scale invariant. I…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-16 Mordehai Milgrom

The Lambda-CDM cosmological model is succesful at reproducing various independent sets of observations concerning the large-scale Universe. This model is however currently, and actually in principle, unable to predict the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-16 Benoit Famaey , Stacy McGaugh

I show that Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is equivalent to assuming an isothermal dark matter density profile, with its density related to the enclosed total baryonic mass. This density profile can be deduced by physical laws if a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Man Ho Chan

The self-binding energy and stability of a galaxy in MOND-based gravity are curiously decreasing functions of its center of mass acceleration towards neighbouring mass concentrations. A tentative indication of this breaking of the Strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xufen Wu , HongSheng Zhao , Benoit Famaey , G. Gentile , O. Tiret , F. Combes , G. W. Angus , A. C. Robin

Regime of MOND, which is used in astronomy to describe the gravitating systems of island type without the need to postulate the existence of a hypothetical dark matter, is generalized to the case of homogeneous distribution of usual matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-28 V. V. Kiselev , S. A. Timofeev

The irrefutable successes of MOND are predicated upon the idea that a critical gravitational acceleration scale, $a_0$, exists. But, beyond its role in MOND, the question: 'Why should a critical gravitational acceleration scale exist at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-15 David Roscoe

Standard treatments of general relativity accept the gravitational slowing of clocks as a primary phenomenon, requiring no further analysis as to cause. Rejecting this attitude, I argue that one or more of the fundamental "constants"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 John E. Heighway

After reviewing the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) proposal, we advocate that the associated phenomenology may actually not result from a modification of Newtonian gravity, but from a mechanism of "gravitational polarization" of some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-09 Luc Blanchet , Alexandre Le Tiec

We consider defining time as a function of a cyclical field, an abstraction of a clock. The definition of time corresponds to a novel interpretation of the relationship between space-time coordinates of observers at different locations in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Yaneer Bar-Yam

The recently proposed Skordis-Z\l{}o\'{s}nik theory is the first relativistic MOND theory that can recover the success of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model at matching observations of the cosmic microwave background. This paper aims to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-16 Shuxun Tian , Shaoqi Hou , Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu