Dark Matter — "Alternative Gravity" Team Responds

An anonymous reader writes, "Following previous results, an international team of astronomers answers, defending the case for a modification of the theory of gravity. This article presents an alternative to dark matter and states constraints on the neutrino mass. In short, dark matter is still not a necessity, provided that neutrinos weigh 2eV. This is allowed by what we currently know and should be tested in the KATRIN experiment in 2009."

Comments

Re:why would matter be dark

[eln]

"Dark matter," also known as "adolescent matter" is so known because of its inherent moodiness. It spends a lot of its time wearing dark makeup and brooding.

Dark Matter Lite!

[Rob T Firefly]

This article presents an alternative to dark matter

Just as dark as your regular matter, but with only 1/3 the calories!

Re:Anti-dark-matter scientists are like ID scienti

[stiggle]

The sweaty fat kid at college had loads of mass and no one interacted with him.
Perhaps neutinos are similar. :-)

Prudence

[Digitus1337]

I try to be conservative, but not closed minded, in my accepting of new ideas. Concerning a concept as heavy as gravity, I think that scientists are just throwing us around, and i'm not falling for it.