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The Skeptics Guide #942 - Jul 29 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Alternate Hypothesis for Dark Matter

The term dark matter was coined by Fritz Zawicki in 1933. Vera Rubin used it to explain the rotation of a galaxy cluster. But there's an alternative hypothesis that Newtonian gravity works differently at really large scales.

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