Journal of Modern Physics, 2015, 6, 490-495
Published Online March 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jmp
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How to cite this paper: Barghout, K. (2015) MLG vs. MOND. Journal of Modern Physics, 6, 490-495.
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MLG vs. MOND
Kamal Barghout
Prince Mohammad University, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Email: kbarghout@pmu.edu.sa
Received 1 February 2015; accepted 24 March 2015; published 27 March 2015
Copyright © 2015 by author and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
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Abstract
In a recently published paper Metal-Like Gravity (MLG) and Its Cosmological Applications [1], it
was determined that a new modification of Newtonian gravity could explain many of the cosmo-
logical mysteries such as the nature of dark matter and dark energy. The theory provided a gravi-
tational physical system and explained the flatness of the galactic rotational curves (RC). A RC fit
that was identical to MOND’s RC fit for spiral galaxies was generated with α as a fitting parameter
determined as equal to 1.345. In this paper I am elaborating more on the theory’s cosmological
extrapolation of MOND’s critical acceleration a0
. This is done by further assessing the gravitational
interaction between the galactic baryonic mass and the halo-DM mass in the star-galaxy overlap-
ping volume estimated in MLG framework interpreting a
0
as only a factor induced from the reduc-
tion of the galactic luminous mass. It is asserted that MOND and MLG dynamic equations are equiva-
lent with MOND’s form, only expressing the equation with an intermediate solution by equating
the magnitudes of δ (a parameter that defines a scaled surface galactic DM-density perpendicular
to the galactic radial direction in the galaxy-star halo overlapping volume) and G.
Keywords
MLG, MOND, Antigravity, Flat Rotation Curves
1. Introduction
Metal-like gravity (MLG) is a recently published theory that modifies Newtonian gravity by introducing new
physics characterized by gravitational interaction between baryonic mass and dark matter mass (DM) as like mass
repel and unlike mass attract. It describes DM particles as universal particles that mainly act as the binding agent
to baryonic objects in the universe. The theory introduces baryonic objects as mass neutral because they attract
much lighter DM particles and form DM-halos. According to MLG, baryonic objects should repel each other.
Two baryonic objects can attract each other only when their DM-halos overlap. The theory simply attributes the
centripetal force between an edge star and the galactic core to the Newtonian gravitational attractive force be-