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Letter: Letter

Published 10 August 2002

From Stuart Hubbard

I like to read Âé¶¹´«Ã½ in bed on a Sunday morning, although this means that I do not have my brain in full working order. However, I was brought suddenly to my senses when I read that “The physics community is sceptical about modified Newtonian dynamics because any evidence for it is largely empirical”. What kind of evidence do they prefer?

I was heartened to move back into familiar territory later, with explanations involving dark matter, mirror matter, variations in inertial mass, and finally according to the illustration, a giant space spider.

Wester Quarff, Shetland

Issue no. 2355 published 10 August 2002

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