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Stacy S. McGaugh (born January 11, 1964) is an American astrophysicist, known for his research on Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) and tests of the dark matter hypothesis.
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I've never observed wisdom to emerge from shouting.
You can lead a theorist to data, but you can't make him think.
People have been looking for this dark matter because there is a Nobel prize, for sure, waiting for whoever discovers it.
One should not only be truthful, but as complete as possible. It does not suffice to be truthful while leaving unpleasant or unpopular facts unsaid.
Obvious results provoke opposition. The more obvious the result, the stronger the opposition.
Whenever I come across a case that doesn't make sense in MOND, it usually doesn't make sense in dark matter either.
I have experienced time and again people dismissing the data because they think MOND is wrong, so I am very consciously drawing a red line between the theory and the data.
Why does MOND get any predictions right? It has had many a priori predictions come true. Why does this happen?
My gut reaction to all these questions is negative. But it appears that one set or the other must be answered in the affirmative. Either way, we are missing something fundamental about the nature of our universe.
I came to the subject a True Believer in dark matter, but it was MOND that nailed the predictions for the LSB galaxies that I was studying (McGaugh & de Blok, 1998), not any flavor of dark matter. So what I am supposed to conclude?