{"id":190797,"date":"2024-06-07T22:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T03:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/researcher-suggests-that-gravity-can-exist-without-mass-mitigating-the-need-for-hypothetical-dark-matter"},"modified":"2024-06-07T22:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T03:23:44","slug":"researcher-suggests-that-gravity-can-exist-without-mass-mitigating-the-need-for-hypothetical-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/researcher-suggests-that-gravity-can-exist-without-mass-mitigating-the-need-for-hypothetical-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass, mitigating the need for hypothetical dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researcher-suggests-that-gravity-can-exist-without-mass-mitigating-the-need-for-hypothetical-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers for the first time showed, how gravity can exist without mass, providing an alternative theory that could potentially mitigate the need for dark matter\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is implied by gravitational effects that can\u2019t be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present in the universe than can be seen. It remains virtually as mysterious as it was nearly a century ago when first suggested by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort in 1932 to explain the so-called \u201cmissing mass\u201d necessary for things like galaxies to clump together.<\/p>\n<p>Now Dr. Richard Lieu at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has published a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that shows, for the first time, how gravity can exist without mass, providing an alternative theory that could potentially mitigate the need for dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy own inspiration came from my pursuit for another solution to the gravitational field equations of general relativity\u2014the simplified version of which, applicable to the conditions of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, is known as the Poisson equation\u2014which gives a finite gravitation force in the absence of any detectable mass,\u201d says Lieu, a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at UAH, a part of the University of Alabama System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers for the first time showed, how gravity can exist without mass, providing an alternative theory that could potentially mitigate the need for dark matter\u2026 Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is implied by gravitational effects that can\u2019t be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present in the universe than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}