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- From: jcj@tellabs.com (jcj)
- Subject: Re: No big crunch?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.145323.3744@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:53:23 GMT
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- Benjamin Weiner writes:
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- >...
- >Somebody just quoted Jerry Ostriker to me: "In astronomy, the only
- >real mass determination is a dynamical determination." Just 'cause
- >we can't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
- >
- >... An alternative which does kick around is Mordechai Milgrom's
- >"Modified Newtonian Dynamics," which rolls over at small accelerations
- >as opposed to large R. Look his papers up for details.
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- Didn't Milgrom build on somebody else's earlier work, or is my memory
- going?
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