as quoted in: Milgrom, Mordehai (2018), "MOND from a brane-world picture", arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05840 (p. 2)
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There is a prescription that works well, MOND, but the reason it works so well is not known. You may say that MOND tells us how the real theory of gravity should look.
— Jacob Bekenstein
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About Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein (May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics (2012) and the Einstein Prize (2015).
About Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein (May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics (2012) and the Einstein Prize (2015).
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