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born 1963 Australia

Pavel Kroupa (born 1963) is a Czech-Australian astrophysicist, who since 1999 has worked on cosmology and challenges to dark matter theory.

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For me MOND is just as nonstandard as ΛCDM.

The existence of dark matter particles of cosmological relevance has been ruled out with extreme (>5sigma) confidence using Chandrasekhar dynamical friction tests ...

Galaxies are observed to be simple systems following laws that result from scale-invariant dynamics which do not emanate from the haphazard merging history of halos of exotic dark matter.

MOND works far too well! In fact, just as planetary systems are Keplerian objects, galaxies are Milgromian objects. Milgrom’s discovery of a0 is likely as epochal as Planck’s discovery of h.

... MOND is the one theoretical description of gravitation which offers the greatest number of predictions which have been verified ...

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