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.

Chriscurtis. Try:http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/f.../story_id/1821

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I'm surprised that Milgrom seemed confident about the existence of such pockets - as I understand it, they would exist in only one version of MOND, one that not much favoured. Further, as MOND is non-relativistic, the non-detection of any MOND effect in any such pocket wouldn't test the relevant theory anyway ... you'd need to consider a more complete theory such as TeVeS.

I'd have thought the more difficult part of any experiment to measure MOND in these pockets would be to find them in the first place, not make measurements of the behaviour of gravity in them ...

I'll try and dig out the actual email reply from my old hotmail account later today if its possible.

There was this in Newscientist today as well:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...wtons-law.html