no dark matter necessary?

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CERN: General relativity vs. exotic dark matter

Summary: it appears that it may not be necessary to assume the existence of "dark matter" in order to explain certain astronomical observations.

Includes a link to the actual paper on the LANL preprint archive.

Comments

Re: figures /. checks their sources huh?

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What they believed is just a coordinate singularity turns out, upon reexamination, to be an unadvertised infinitely thin sheet of matter which contributes to the overall gravitational field.

um...um...um...it's, uh, quintessence! yeah! that's it!

Thanks for the sanity check. :)