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Old 11-October-2005, 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Brendan
There's a paper here http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0507619 that says they used general relativity to explain galaxy rotation curves without needing dark matter. It's from astro-ph, so I guess it's not woo woo and has too much math in it to be woo woo. Did anybody know about this paper? Had any errors been found in it or is it the unfounding of dark matter?
Astro-ph does not require any peer review, it's just a place for people to post their own papers, sometimes before they've even been submitted to a regular journal. I've seen articles on astro-ph that were simple rebuttals to articles posted there by other researchers. Appearance on astro-ph signifies nothing.
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