View Single Post
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 26-March-2007, 06:23 AM
chriscurtis chriscurtis is offline
Established Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Auckland, NZ
Posts: 221
Default Testing MOND in our solar system

As far as I know, one of the problems with testing MOND in our solar system is that the gravitational accelerations within the Solar System are too large because of the planets and the sun and so not beneath the MOND acceleration.

However, there must be many(changing) pockets within the Solar System where the net acceleration due to gravitiy is under the amount required for MOND. These places will be located between planets and the sun, the moon and the earth, etc.

I asked Professor Moti about this and he said it was valid but it would be very hard to find these pockets as they would keep moving and be very small.

Can anyone think of an experiment (bouncing laser off of something???) that would detect these fleeting pockets? It would be a lovely test of the theory.
Reply With Quote