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Testing quantised inertia on galactic scales

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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE
Volume 342, Issue 2, Pages 575-578

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-012-1197-0

Keywords

Galaxy rotation; Inertial mass

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Galaxies and galaxy clusters have rotational velocities (v) apparently too fast to allow them to be gravitationally bound by their visible matter (M). This has been attributed to the presence of invisible (dark) matter, but so far this has not been directly detected. Here, it is shown that a new model that modifies inertial mass by assuming it is caused by Unruh radiation, which is subject to a Hubble-scale (I similar to) Casimir effect predicts the rotational velocity to be: v (4)=2GMc (2)/I similar to (the Tully-Fisher relation) where G is the gravitational constant, M is the baryonic mass and c is the speed of light. The model predicts the outer rotational velocity of dwarf and disk galaxies, and galaxy clusters, within error bars, without dark matter or adjustable parameters, and makes a prediction that local accelerations should remain above 2c (2)/I similar to at a galaxy's edge.

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