Dark Matter Problems, Cosmology and Progress: a personal account

Links to the relevant research papers and the German "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" article (free of charge, "kostenfrei"):

• The Failures of the Standard Model of Cosmology Require a New Paradigm (Kroupa, Pawlowski & Milgrom, 2012, International Journal of Modern Physics D, Volume 21, Issue 14, id. 1230003).
(free-of-charge pre-print)


• The dark matter crisis: falsification of the current standard model of cosmology (Kroupa, 2012, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, open access article - downloadable free of charge).
(free-of-charge pre-print)


• Local-Group tests of dark-matter Concordance Cosmology: Towards a new paradigm for structure formation (Kroupa, Famaey, de Boer, Dabringhausen, Pawlowski, Boily, Jerjen, Forbes, Hensler, Metz, 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics 523, 32)
(free-of-charge pre-print)


• Das kosmologische Standardmodell auf dem Pruefstand (Kroupa & Pawlowski, August 2010, Spektrum der Wissenschaft)

Links to related Nature and a few other papers dealing with issues relevant to the Dark Matter Problem:

• A structure in the early universe at z ~ 1.3 that exceeds the homogeneity scale of the R-W concordance cosmology (Clowes, Harris, Raghunathan et al., 2013, MNRAS)
  (free-of-charge pre-print)


• Missing dark matter in the local universe (Karachentsev, I.D., 2012, AstBu)
  (free-of-charge pre-print)


• Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution (Peebles & Nusser, 2010, Nature 465, 565)
  (free-of-charge pre-print)


• Galaxies appear simpler than expected (Disney, Romano, Garcia-Appadoo, West, Dalcanton, Cortese, 2008, Nature 455, 1082)
  (free-of-charge pre-print)

Links to reviews on Milgromian dynamics/MOND:

• Modified Newtonian Dynamics: A Review (Famaey & McGaugh, 2012, Living Reviews in Relativity).
(free-of-charge pre-print)


• Modified Newtonian Dynamics: A Falsification of Cold Dark Matter (Sanders, 2009, Advances in Astronomy, article id 752439).
(free-of-charge)

The Dark Matter Crisis main page on SciLogs

SciLogs contents with links:

• Scott Dodelson on dark matter and modified gravity (guest post) (09.03.2013)


• The Dark Matter Crisis continues: on the difficulties of communicating controversial science (08.03.2013)


• Are there two types of dwarf galaxies in the universe? (07.03.2013)


• Andromeda satellites behave as expected ... if they are tidal dwarf galaxies (03.01.2013)


• A filament of dark matter between two clusters of galaxies (05.07.2012)


• 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (02.07.2012)


• Discussing Gravity with Erik Verlinde (28.06.2012)


• Does filamentary accretion of dark matter sub-halos naturally produce a VPOS-like structure? (15.05.2012)


• The vast polar structure - VPOS - of satellite objects around the Milky Way (28.04.2012)


• Dark Matter gone missing in many places: a crisis of modern physics? (19.04.2012)


• German TV tipp ("Physics at the verge of collapse - science in the dark") (17.04.2012)


• Question D: What about the Bullet cluster? And what about the Train-Wreck cluster Abell 520? (15.04.2012)


• Question C.III: Fundamental theoretical problems (31.03.2012)


• Question C.II: MOND works far too well ! (21.03.2011)


• Question C.I: What are the three best reasons for the failure of the LCDM model? I: Incompatibility with observations (08.03.2011)


• Question B2: What is a galaxy? (Addendum on the relaxation time) (23.01.2011)


• Question B1: What is a galaxy? (19.01.2011)


• Question A: Galaxies do not work in LCDM, sociology and majority views (17.01.2011)


• Another reaction to the Dark Matter Debate (08.12.2010)


• Podcast and presentations to "Dark Matter: A Debate" and the subsequent TV debate are online (02.12.2010)


• Dark Matter: A debate - afterwards while on safari (27.11.2010)


• Reactions to the Dark Matter Debate and Another One in German TV (24.11.2010)


• Slides of the Dark Matter Debate and of Robert Sanders' MOND Talk (22.11.2010)


• Live Blog of the Dark Matter Debate in Bonn (18.11.2010)


• Dark Matter: A debate at the Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics at Bonn University (01.11.2010)


• Another Conference: New Directions in Modern Cosmology (23.09.2010)


• The standard model of cosmology (19.09.2010)


• Our contributions at the annual meeting of the "Astronomische Gesellschaft" (10.09.2010)


• II. The Fritz Zwicky Paradox and its solution (08.09.2010)


• I. The Fritz Zwicky Paradox: the fourth failure of Newton (MOND, MOG, etc) (01.09.2010)


• State-of-the-art cosmology: the current status (25.08.2010)


• Is LambdaCDM or standard cosmology a 4th order speculation, and ought it be further researched? (18.08.2010)


• The Train Wreck Cluster - an "anti-Bullet-Cluster": disproof of Cold or Warm Dark Matter (11.08.2010)


• The Bullet Cluster and galaxy clusters in modified-gravity theories (04.08.2010)


• "But the Bullet Cluster ..." - Proof of Cold or Warm Dark Matter in galaxy clusters is but a myth (30.07.2010)


• Is it absurd to throw out the idea of Cold or Warm Dark Matter? (28.07.2010)


• August-Issue of "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" (27.07.2010)


• Article available online (24.07.2010)


• A challenge for Dark Matter (22.07.2010)

Pavel Kroupa and Mordehai Milgrom at MGADS, Strasbourg, 29.06.2010.