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Gravity can exist without mass, dark matter could be myth: Study (interestingengineering.com)

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[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Does this explain the bullet cluster? If it doesn't, it's kinda useless.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

the current theory is “not by itself sufficient to discredit the dark matter hypothesis — it could be an interesting mathematical exercise at best, but it is the first proof that gravity can exist without mass,” he added.

(Quote by the author of the study himself)

It's a purely mathematical construct that could explain bending of light without mass.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Sure, I'm blaming the concerned journalist(s) here. It's rlly scummy to hype up an evidenceless hypothesis like this. Does injustice to both, the scientists and the public.

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