On the interpretive role of theories of gravity and `ugly' solutions to the total evidence for dark matter

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2014.05.008zbMATH Open1294.83101OpenAlexW2051439156MaRDI QIDQ407335FDOQ407335

Authors: William L. Vanderburgh 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.05.008

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zbMATH Keywords

underdeterminationdark mattergeneral relativityconfirmationtheory testing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Physics (00A79) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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• Making the case for conformal gravity
• Evidence of dark matter, and the interpretive role of general relativity
• Dark matter, the Equivalence Principle and modified gravity
• What have we learned from observational cosmology?
• Non-standard models and the sociology of cosmology
• Tensor-vector-scalar-modified gravity: from small scale to cosmology

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