Is There A Place In the Universe Where Gravity Breaks?

Have we found the smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity? Were Einstein and Newton both wrong about gravity?

#darkmatter #breakthrough #physics

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[boba]

I'm not too critical of gravity theories, I just Let the chips fall where they may

[ShannonMcDowell]

You're a nano physicist? You so seem taller on camera. <rimshot> Seriously, thank you for going over this topic - I knew my skepticism wasn't unjustified. Thank you for your work!

[DrBenMiles]

Newton and Einstein have been our go-to for gravity, but do these findings suggest their theories are starting to breakdown? What do you think?

[thelittlepeople]

Love your coverage of this, thanks for being so even handed.

[grahamdavid]

journalism in general - and now even science journalism - as we were taught to define it - hardly exists today due to - mainly - corporate greed / corrupted - influences - excellent - thanks

[periurban]

I really appreciate the way you deal with these kinds of topics. Yu don't gatekeep "the truth" nor do you look for the sensational.
On the topic at hand, dark matter is a fascinating thing, because it means there is something missing in our understanding, which is always fun!

[MikeJones-wpmw]

It's not gravity, it's magnetism holding things together. Or more accurately it's a combination of both. The gravity causes the orbits but the magnetism causes the accelerated speeds and holds things together against centrifugal forces. Black holes rotate and generate huge magnetic fields that extend beyond the galaxies they inhabit, affecting every star in them.

[someone]

Just a simple question, what about the energy stored (as mass) in the angular momentum of the galaxy system? Has that been accounted for?

[riadhalrabeh]

Well done .. best explanation I've seen.

[RGF]

Unfortunately, so many “science” web-sites, channels, and journalism tend towards “click bait”, and “rip n’ read” research to do their reports. Witness the recent summer of craziness over LK99. Seems like people want to jump on anything. Thanks for taking a sober, sane approach with a little doubt. Skepticism and challenge and opposing views helps to keep science sane.

[FobbitMike]

Well done. You've earned a new subscriber.

[jimturner]

Been trying to prove Einstein wrong for a century and always end up falling down.

[Oldschool]

I honestly think the more we try to understand reality the more it will be beyond our grasp. Why reality exists at all is not understanding it but accepting and embracing it! As a species our collective human goals determines our future fate!🙂

[daleb]

Your nailing it on the wide binary orbit also therefore also galactic arms and galactic rotation since rotation that is also rotations

[scottk]

Interestingly, Newton's formula for gravity works within the heliosphere, but where that formula breaks is outside the heliosphere. There was an alternate theory in cosmology called the Electric Universe theory, also known as Plasma Cosmology, which was very popular until its main proponent had some personal squabble with a higher-up at their university. Then the theory was considered taboo and the gravity-only theory took over. The idea was that plasma fields could also be involved in holding galaxies together. Since the realm in which Newton's formula breaks is outside the heliosphere, it would make sense that gravity perfectly explains the orbits of planets, but doesn't fully explain the interactions between star systems. So it may be that gravity isn't broken, but there's another force involved at that scale - without having to invent ghost matter! After all, we know that there's tremendous energy in deep space.

If there were such a force holding star systems together, would that exert some force on the heliosphere boundary? Could that boundary pressure then exert a force upon the sun, similar to the pressure which the ground effect exerts on very low-flying objects? If so, could we detect this as either extra pressure within the solar wind on one side of the sun, or deviations in the bow shock?

[DrMaddy]

16 Sigma!? That's so many sigmas!

[mimArmand]

I agree. That’s a big problem in the science journalism that unfortunately seems to be affecting the science world itself too!

[Oldschool]

Jwst has made us go from guessing to seeing realty as it is scientists are scratching there heads currently lol😂

[glike]

Another way to analyze the data would be to assume classical reletivistic gravity is correct and estimate the error in the data.

[AlexisOmnis]

We are thinking too 3 dimensionally. Dark matter could be normal matter that is hidden in higher spacial dimensions, relative to an observer. This would rectify the conundrum of missing mass & the spinning of the rim of galaxies being too fast. It also explains entanglement; entangled particles can use higher dimensions to stay connected. They're only at a distance from each other in the 1st three dimensions but are connected using higher spacial dimensional portals.

Have you heard of the TARDIS?