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A model based on simple assumptions about 4-dimensional space-time being closed and isotropic, and embedded in a 5th large-scale dimension, r, representing the radius of curvature of space-time, has been used in an application of Newton's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-10-10 M. B. Gerrard , T. J. Sumner

We test Milgromian dynamics (MOND) using wide binary stars (WBs) with separations of $2-30$ kAU. Locally, the WB orbital velocity in MOND should exceed the Newtonian prediction by $\approx 20\%$ at asymptotically large separations given the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Indranil Banik , Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland , Benoit Famaey , Rodrigo Ibata , Steffen Mieske , Hongsheng Zhao

A naive extension to MOND of the standard computation of the two-body relaxation time Tb implies that Tb is comparable to the crossing time regardless of the number N of stars in the system. This computation is questionable in view of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Ciotti , J. Binney

Bimetric MOND (BIMOND) theories, propounded recently, predict peculiar gravitational interactions between matter and twin matter (TM). Twin matter is hypothetical matter that might couple directly only to the second metric of the theory.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-17 Mordehai Milgrom

An important tool to quantify the likeness of two probability measures are f-divergences, which have seen widespread application in statistics and information theory. An example is the total variation, which plays an exceptional role among…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-11 Jochen Bröcker

There are many hot discussions in the literature about two competing paradigms in galactic and extra-galactic astronomy and cosmology, namely the Dark Matter and the Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). It is very difficult to challenge MOND…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-27 Alexey Golovnev , Natalia Masalaeva

Conditional probabilities are a core concept in machine learning. For example, optimal prediction of a label $Y$ given an input $X$ corresponds to maximizing the conditional probability of $Y$ given $X$. A common approach to inference tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Yoav Wald , Amir Globerson

Employing the Verlinde's hypothesis, and considering two well-known generalized entropy formalisms, two modifications to the Newtonian gravity are derived. In addition, it has been shown that the generalized entropy measures may also…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 H. Moradpour , A. Sheykhi , C. Corda , Ines G. Salako

Fundamental limits to predictability are central to our understanding of many physical and computational systems. Here we show that, despite its remarkable capabilities, deep learning exhibits such fundamental limits rooted in the fractal,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Andrew Ly , Pulin Gong

We study a composition operation on monads, equivalently presented as large equational theories. Specifically, we discuss the existence of tensors, which are combinations of theories that impose mutual commutation of the operations from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Nathan Bowler , Sergey Goncharov , Paul Blain Levy , Lutz Schröder

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 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

This article describes the various experimental bounds on the variation of the fundamental constants of nature. After a discussion on the role of fundamental constants, of their definition and link with metrology, the various constraints on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jean-Philippe Uzan

It is shown that the foundational axioms of MOND alone predict a strong correlation between a bulk measure of the baryonic surface density, $\Sigma_B$, and the corresponding dynamical one, $\Sigma_D$, of an isolated object, such as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-07 Mordehai Milgrom

The study of complex systems has attracted widespread attention from researchers in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering. Prediction is one of the central issues in this field. Although most related studies have…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-21 En Xu , Yilin Bi , Hongwei Hu , Xin Chen , Zhiwen Yu , Yong Li , Yanqing Hu , Tao Zhou

We test the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) theory with the velocity-dispersion profiles of Galactic globular clusters populating the outermost region of the Milky Way halo, where the Galactic acceleration is lower than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Sollima , C. Nipoti

We point out an interesting theoretical prediction for elliptical galaxies residing inside galaxy clusters in the framework of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), that could be used to test this paradigm. Apart from the central brightest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xufen Wu , HongSheng Zhao , Benoit Famaey

Conformal geometry is considered within a general relativistic framework. An invariant distant for proper time is defined and a parallel displacement is applied in the distorted space-time, modifying Einstein's equation appropriately. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Edmund A. Chadwick , Timothy F. Hodgkinson , Graham S. McDonald

We extend the MOND analysis to a sample of 17 high surface brightness, early-type disc galaxies with rotation curves derived from a combination of 21cm HI line observations and optical spectroscopic data. A number of these galaxies have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. H. Sanders , E. Noordermeer

This paper introduces a possible alternative model of gravity based on the theory of fractional-dimension spaces and its applications to Newtonian gravity. In particular, Gauss's law for gravity as well as other fundamental classical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-09 Gabriele U. Varieschi