As a part of my growing series researching MOND and the professionals propagating their research with and around it, I’d like to introduce Prof. Stacy McGaugh - down below are associated links to him, his work both in ΛCDM and MOND.
Note: the profile and descriptions posted here (not linked) are made by me, not him - links to his research and lectures down below.
- Most cosmologists/astrophysicists study apposing theories for various reasons but Stacy was very invested in ΛCDM in his early career. But as observational research went forth in the field he found the ΛCDM predictions difficult to fit and needed evermore fine tuning, while the MOND hypothesis fit much of the observed data right out of the gate. While Stacy admits that MOND can’t account for all observable data, yet, MOND’s research funding is drops in a bucket compared to ΛCDM. I invite you to be pragmatic and open minded about MOND, and reflect about how much fine-tuning is necessary for Dark Matter to fit data.
Links:
- Prof Stacy MCGaugh works at Case Western Reserve University.
- His own personal website. Has so many great links, including The MOND pages, a personal website focused on MOND research, lectures, debates, as well as Dark Matter (which again, he’s worked on professionally).
- A long-winded lecture that you can watch entirely for greater context, but I’ll link to Stacy’s portion about MOND’s early development, it’s predictions and the following successes and challenges: Stacy McGaugh (CWRU Astronomy) Patterns on the Sky: Galaxy Dynamics Edition
- KITP Conference 2018 - Lecture and Debate MOND vs. Dark Matter - Stacy McGaugh & Carlos Frenk. Carlos Frenk’s side of the debate is linked below the video but I found it difficult to play as he has his linked at his own website - it may play for you.
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