SCE Proposal
...oday. On the contrary, what if dark matter doesn’t exist. This is where MOND comes into play. In order to determine the needed mass of galaxies, we focus on Newtonian physics, which includes two major laws: Newton’s law of gravity (the force of gravity compared to the mass and separation between two objects) and Newton’s second law (force compared to acceleration). As I will explain, MOND changes Newton’s second law at low accelerations, to answer for this need of dark matter. By changing these laws, they predict a smaller force (less gravity-producing mass), will account for the difference in weight and the acceleration in galaxies. Abstract Dark matter has been a theory that has existed for numerous years, as an understanding of the matter that cannot be observed by optical, radio, x-ray, infrared, ultraviolet, or gamma ray telescopes. This is what, supposedly, accounts for ninety percent of the universe’s mass. But the addition of an unknown substance, in our heavens, can be a difficult thing to explain and far fetched to understand. What if dark matter did not exist, what else could explain the added mass and the acceleration of a ...