Quotes in the Popular Press

• Press release Astronomers' theory of galaxy formation may be upended discussed in many countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United States, & Uruguay)
  • EarthSky interview, EarthSky, 11/18/24
  • Modello standard? JWST dice no. Inaf TV (in Italian), 11/14/24
  • MOND and more. Does the universe need a rethink?, EarthSky, 11/17/24
  • Astronomers Shocked as JWST Uncovers Massive Galaxies That Challenge Gravity Theory. Is Dark Matter Theory Wrong?, ZME Science, 11/15/24
  • James Webb Space Telescope Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity, The Debrief, 11/15/24
  • James Webb-telescoop zet gangbare theorie over het ontstaan van sterrenstelsels (en zwaartekracht) op losse schroeven, MSN (Netherlands), 11/15/24
  • Studie deutet an, dass es keine dunkle Materie gibt "Die Quintessenz ist: 'Ich hab's ja gesagt'", Swabische Post, 11/15/24
  • Nuevo Estudio Pone En Duda La Teoria De La Materia Oscura Sobre La Formacion De Galaxias En El Universo, Cambio 22, 11/14/24
  • Il ruolo della materia oscura nella formazione delle galassie e ancora plausibile? Reccom Magazine 11/14/24
  • Astronomers' theory of how galaxies formed may be upended, ScienceVega, 11/14/24
  • Vaihtoehtoinen painovoimateoria sai tukea James Webb-teleskoopilta, Tahdet ja avarus, 11/15/24
  • Studie deutet an, dass es keine dunkle Materie gibt "Die Quintessenz ist: 'Ich hab's ja gesagt'", Frankfurter Rundschau, 11/15/24
  • 'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claims, Network Today, 11/14/24
  • Czy ciemna materia pomogla zbudowac galaktyki? Wkrotce poznamy odpowiedz, Antyweb, 11/13/24
  • Ciemna materia mogla nie wplywac na powstawanie pierwszych galaktyk, Najwazniejsze, 11/14/24
  • James Webb Space Telescope Data Unveils Galaxies That Could Lead to a Dark Matter Revolution, The Times of India, 11/14/24
  • Images from the James Webb telescope cast doubt on the theory of galaxy formation, Focus-news.net, 11/13/24
  • James Webb Telescope's Discoveries Disprove Dark Matter Theory - What Now? Bizsiziz, 11/12/24
  • Researchers say this caused the incomprehensible evolution of galaxies in the early universe, Veda Vo Vrecku, 11/13/24
  • 'Instant' Galaxies Spotted In Early Universe - Dark Matter Theory Now In Crisis? Space Chatter, 11/13/24
  • Materia oscura, Webb complica le cose nei cieli, La Stampa, 11/12/24
  • Incredible findings from the James Webb Space Telescope reshape our understanding of how galaxies form, SuperComputing Online News, 11/12/24
  • James Webb-Weltraumteleskop: Galaxienentdeckungen sollen das Standardmodell durcheinander bringen, Die heutigen Nachrichten, 11/13/24
  • James Webb Space Telescope challenges and reshapes theories of the formation of the universe, Forward Pathway, 11/13/24
  • 'James Webb' Unwittingly Endorses Alternative Theory of Gravity, 3DNews, 11/13/24
  • Mond statt Dunkle Materie: Webb-Teleskop stellt Physik auf den Kopf, WinFuture, 11/13/24
  • El telescopio espacial James Webb encuentra galaxias que apuntan hacia una alternativa de materia oscura, Cbainfo, 11/13/24
  • Webb sconvolge la scienza: la teoria della materia oscura vacilla, galassie antiche troppo grandi per essere spiegate, Meteoweb, 11/12/24
  • Teorien om tyngdekraft kan vaere feil, Teknokratiet, 11/13/24
  • The role of dark matter in the formation of galaxies was questioned, Iranian Students' News Agency, 11/13/24
  • Weltraumteleskop James Webb: Galaxienfunde rutteln angeblich am Standardmodell, Heise online, 11/12/24
  • Como se formam as galaxias? Estudo lanca duvidas sobre a teoria mais difundida, Sic Noticias, 11/13/24
  • La teoria classica della formazione delle galassie potrebbe essere capovolta, AGI, 11/12/24
  • Osservazioni non standard per le galassie di Webb, Media INAF, 11/12/24
  • Un estudio pone en duda teoria sobre formacion de galaxias, Meganoticias, 11/13/24
  • Telescopio James Webb desafia la teoria de la materia oscura sobre la formacion de galaxias primordiales, Maya Communicacion, 11/12/24
  • Estudio cientifico cambia todo lo conocido sobre el universo, mdz, 11/13/24
  • Estabamos equivocados: el universo no se formo como pensabamos y ahora tenemos pruebas, La Razon, 11/12/24
  • Un estudio pone en duda la teoria sobre la formacion de las galaxias, 20minutos, 11/12/24
  • Un estudio pone en duda la teoria mas extendida sobre la formacion de las galaxias, Montevideo, 11/12/24
  • Nueva teoria sobre el origen de las galaxias, Baja News, 11/12/24
  • Desafio a la teoria de la materia oscura en la formacion de galaxias, Cienciaplus, 11/12/24
  • La teoria de los astronomos sobre como se formaron las galaxias podria verse trastocada, infobae, 11/12/24
  • Large, Bright Early Galaxies: A Win for Modified Gravity Over Dark Matter, labroots, 11/12/24
  • James Webb Space Telescope finds galaxies pointing toward a dark matter alternative, msn, 11/12/24
  • James Webb Telescope Data Challenges Dark Matter Theory, Suggesting an Alternative View of Galaxy Formation, Daily Galaxy, 11/13/24
  • Astronomers challenge traditional galaxy formation theories, Space Daily, 11/13/24
  • James Webb Space Telescope finds galaxies pointing toward a dark matter alternative, Space.com, 11/12/24
  • The oldest galaxies are large and bright, supporting alternative gravity theory, Tech Exporist, 11/13/24
  • New research challenges dark matter theory in galaxy formation, Phys.org, 11/13/24
  • New Theory of Gravity Explained by the Observation of Early Galaxies, AZO quantum, 11/13/24
  • New Research Questions Standard Theory of How Galaxies Formed in Early Universe, SciNews, 11/12/24
  • James Webb telescope overturns accepted theory of galaxy formation, RTVI, 11/12/24
  • NASA Webb Revelations Challenge Traditional Theory of Gravity, Newsweek, 11/12/24
  • New study suggests standard theory of how galaxies formed could be wrong, Courthouse News, 11/12/24
• Strange observations of galaxies challenge ideas about dark matter, Science News, 7/5/24
• Press release A million light years and still going appearing in
  • Space Weekly, 6/17/24
  • Bioengineer.org, 6/17/24
  • Before it's news, 6/17/24
  • News Wise, 6/17/24
  • MSN, 6/17/24
  • Universe Today, 6/17/24
  • The Brighter Side, 6/18/24
  • Knowridge, 6/20/24
  • Space Daily, 6/21/24
  • SciTech Daily, 6/21/24
  • earth.com, 6/28/24
• Rethinking space and time could let us do away with dark matter, New Scientist, 3/13/24
• Leap day: Why do we do this every four years? The Daily, 2/29/24
• Cosmic Controversy: The Ongoing Debate Between Dark Matter and Modified Gravity Theories, BNN, 2/26/24
• Dark matter vs modified gravity: which team are you on?, Physics World podcasts, 2/26/24
• Cosmic combat: delving into the battle between dark matter and modified gravity, Physics World, 2/6/24
• Modified Gravity May Make Planet Nine Disappear, Scientific American, 10/25/23
• The Milky Way May Be Missing a Trillion Suns Worth of Mass, Scientific American, 10/11/23
• She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity, NPR, 9/23/23
• Wide Open Question: Binary-Star Observations Support MOND, CityLife, 8/17/23
• Studying local galaxies from an 'outside' perspective - and what it may mean for dark matter, BBC Sky at Night Magazine, 6/26/23
• The tradition of reading the stars: The myths behind astrology, The Daily, 3/21/23
• The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue, New Scientist, 2/8/23
• The Enduring Mystery of the Dragonfly 44 Galaxy, Qunata magazine, 11/7/22; also in Wired, 12/4/22
• JWST's First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology, Scientific American, 9/14/22
• Do the James-Webb observations disprove dark matter theory? Roxy Mix, 7/23/22 (in French)
• Can Galaxies Form Without Dark Matter?, Forbes, 6/14/22
• New Insights from a Dark-Matter-Free Galaxy Revives Controversial Gravity Theory, The Daily Galaxy, 5/22/22
• Our paper on the Strong Equivalence Principle as tested by the External Field Effect was the most read paper in the Astrophysical Journal in December 2021 (over 32,500 downloads), 1/11/22.
• Dark Matter May Be Missing from This Newfound Galaxy, Scientific American, 12/22/21
• A Hint of Dark Matter Sends Physicists Into Hype Mode Yet Again, Quanta Magazine, 10/19/21
• Dark Matter Alternative Pases Big Test, Physics, 14, 143, 10/15/21
• Science News 2803: Dark Matter is Out, Nexus, May-June 2021
• 'Settled science' stranglehold on seismic forecasting, Bakersfield, 3/13/21
• New evidence AGAINST dark matter?!, Dr. Becky, 1/28/21
• Matiere noire: la fin du MOND?, France Culture, 1/26/21 (podcast in French)
• Unique prediction of modified gravity challenges dark matter, The Daily, 1/21/21
• Study that finds 'modified gravity' causes the unexplained motion of stars within galaxies, Daily Mail, 1/8/21
• Maybe 'dark matter' doesn't exist after all, new research suggests, NBC News, 1/6/21
• Could physicists have been so wrong? Futurism, 1/6/21
• New Data Supports the Modified Gravity Explanation for Dark Matter, Much to the Surprise of the Researchers, Universe Today, 12/28/20
• Evidence of 'Modified Gravity' In 150 Galaxies Strengthens Dark Matter Alternative, Slashdot, 12/22/20
• Defying the Laws of Gravity - Does a Smoking Gun Nix Dark Matter Theory?, The Daily Galaxy, 12/28/20
• La materia oscura - E se non esistesse? Business Insder Italia 12/18/20 (in Italian)
• What if Dark Matter Doesn't Exist? Unique Prediction of Modified Gravity Challenges Dark Matter Hypothesis, SciTechDaily, 12/17/20
• New Research Supports Modified Gravity Theory, SciNews, 12/17/20
• Modified Gravity Offers a Viable Explanation for Cosmological Dilemma, AZO quantum, 12/17/18
• Unique prediction of modified gravity challenges dark matter theory, Phys.Org, 12/16/20
• also in Science Daily | SpaceRef | Mirage
• New evidence for modified Newtonian mechanics, Chosun, 12/14/20 (in Korean)
• An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test, Quanta magazine, 7/28/20
• The Trouble with Dark Matter - interview on the Consmic Controversy Podcast, 7/1/20
• Dark matter is still not found. And that's not going to happen, say these scientists, deVolkskrant, 10/25/19 (in Dutch)
• The hidden universe is not what we thought, Science et Vie, 08/28/19 (in French)
• Two Unusual Galaxies Shake Up the Dark Matter Debate, Again, Wired, 4/3/19
• Ghostly Galaxies Hint at Dark Matter Breakthrough, Scientific American, 1/25/19
• Does the Universe Still Need Einstein? New York Times, 11/21/18
• Is the search for dark energy a dead end? Cosmos Magazine, 9/19/18
• FAZ (German newspaper), 9/5/18
• Oddball Galaxy Puts Dark Matter Theory to the Test, Scientific American, 7/18/18
• Einstein's Greatest Theory Validated on a Galactic Scale, Scientific American, 6/22/18
• The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It, Quanta magazine, 6/12/18
• What is Dark Matter and Why Hasn't Anyone Found It Yet? Gizmodo, 6/7/18
• Our Galaxy was walloped Gizmodo, 4/30/18
• Dark matter is MIA in this strange galaxy Science News, 3/28/18
• A Galaxy Without (Much) Dark Matter Sky and Telescope, 3/28/18
• System of the World dialogue, 2/22/18
• Galaxies rotate in sync, raising dark matter questions Space.com, 2/3/18
• La materia oscura pierde por goleada ante el principio de la navaja de Occam ABC (Spain), 11/27/17
• SEARCH FOR DARK MATTER DEALT ANOTHER BLOW AS ANOTHER HIDING PLACE FOR ELUSIVE SUBSTANCE RULED OUT Newsweek, 11/9/17
• Dark-matter hunt fails to find the elusive particles Nature, 11/8/17
• What the Neutron Star Collision Means for Dark Matter Smithsonian, 10/31/17
• The Future is Dark LSA Magazine, Fall 2017
• We don't need dark matter to explain the universe Motherboard 10/4/17
• Shaking the dark matter paradigm Symmetry 7/18/17
• Has dogma derailed the scientific search for dark matter? Aeon 7/17
• The Superfluid Universe Aeon 7/17
• THINK Magazine 7/17
• How Dark Matter Lost its Shine 3/22/17 New Scientist
• Rules of attraction: Why it's time to rethink how gravity works 3/15/17 New Scientist
• Maybe Dark Matter Is All Just a Big Mistake 2/17 Nautilus
• The Physicist Who Denies that Dark Matter Exists 2/17 Nautilus
• The Guardian 12/31/16
• Physics World 10/7/16
• Forbes 9/23/16
• Il Manifesto (full page spread, in Italian)
• The Daily Galaxy 9/24/16
• NanoWerk 9/21/16
• Radial Acceleration Relation press release 9/21/16
• Shaking Up the Dark Universe, World Science Festival, 6/16
• TEDxCLE talk 11/15, also on youtube
• Dark Matter Deniers 7/15 (Discover magazine)
• Video of public talk for the Toledo Astronomical Association 3/15
• New Doubts about Dark Matter 12/14 (Forbes)
• It's crunch time for dark matter if WIMPs don't show 5/14 (New Scientist)
• The Missing Universe 4/14 (Astronomy magazine cover story) | also here
• From Quarks to Quasars 11/29/13
• National Geographic 8/29/13 Also here
• Yahoo News 8/29/13
• newKerala 8/29/13
• DNA India 8/29/13
• Z News (India) 8/29/13
• webindia 8/29/13
• Athiest nexus 8/28/13
• Science 2.0 8/28/13
• Science Newsline 8/28/13
• Science News 8/28/13
• Andromeda dwarfs revisted: a priori predictions confirmed - press release 8/28/13
• National Geographic 3/25/13 Also here
• Interview for German Public Radio 3/22/2013
• Incredible Story of attempted censorship 3/8/2013
• New Scientist 2/28/2013
• Time Science & Space 2/26/2013 | reply to Siegel | reply to ialsoagree
• Andromeda dwarfs' velocity dispersion predicted - press release 2/14/2013
• Andromeda dwarfs on physorg 2/14/2013
• Andromeda dwarfs on MessageToEagle 2/15/2013
• Andromeda dwarfs on redOrbit 2/15/2013
• Andromeda dwarfs press release 2/14/2013
• Physics World 10/1/2012
• Science et Vie 9/2012 (No. 60, p. 112. In French)
• Gas Rich Galaxies Confirm Prediction of Modified Gravity Theory press release 2/22/2011

  Viewpoint for PRL by Masters & Spekkens

  Original articles: Science & Vie (in French) | BBC | Science | Nature | motherboard | NZZ (in German)

  Other articles: io9 | redOrbit | PhysOrg | ScienceDaily | technologijos (in Lithuanian)

  The blogosphere reacts:

  User's Guide to the Universe | The Dayside | Cosmic Variance | Starts with a Bang | Weizman Wave | Particle Decelerator

  Trialogue with Rainer Plaga and Sean Carroll.

  Some remarks on cognitive dissonance

• Reliance on Indirect Evidence Fuels Dark Matter Doubts in Scientific American 12/30/2010
• An interesting thread provoked by the astronomy decadal report.
• See here for the full text of my quote solicited by Pavel Kroupa
• Bringing dark matter down to Earth and Dark matter could meet its nemesis on Earth in New Scientist 2/24/2010
• Matiere Noire in Ciel & Espace 2/2010
• Tweak Gravity: What If There Is No Dark Matter? in Scientific American 11/5/2009
• Mystery of the missing mini-galaxies in New Scientist 8/24/2009
• Phantom menace to dark matter theory in New Scientist 7/8/2009
• Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into Crisis in Physics.org 5/5/2009
• 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time (book by Michael Brooks) 8/8/2008
• A case of MOND over Dark Matter in Universe Today 4/8/2008
• Local Dwarfs in Science Daily 4/7/2008
• BBC report from the UK National Astronomy Meeting 4/5/2008
• RAS press release 4/4/2008
• Galaxy without dark matter in New Scientist 2/6/2008
• Radio chat on WCPN 9/10/2007
• Dark Matter is Dead in the BBC's Sky at Night 9/2007
• Seeing Through Dark Matter in Science 8/2007
• Article in Le Monde 5/2007 (in French)
• Battlefield Galactica in Sky & Telescope 4/2007
• A jump that would prove Newton wrong in Nature, 446, 357 (2007)
• Equinox challenge to Newton's law in New Scientist, 2597, 15 (2007)
• Meet me at 79°50' N, 56° W in Science News, 171 (13), 206 (2007)
• Experiment sets the ultimate test for Newton's laws PhysicsWeb, 3/2007
• Can Newton's 2nd Law be Violated on Earth? PhysOrg, 3/2007
• Could self-moving objects explain away dark matter? World Science, 3/2007
• MOND experiment cancels all accelerations, could it end dark matter? ITWire, 4/2007
• Bewährungsprobe für Newton Wissenschaft, 3/2007
• Newton's second law, Revisited
• Inaugural Letter from a Contrarian for Cosmic Controversy 1/2007
• Article in Ciel & Espcace 12/2006 (in French)
• Physics Today Search & Discovery 11/2006
• Balanced article in Physics World stemming from the ROE conference.
• Nice interview of Jim Peebles
• BBC Horizon programme
• Prof. Noah Brosch's newspaper article (in Hebrew)
• My philosphical tirade as published by futureframe (translated by Phillip Helbig)
• info.astro report on CMB result (in Spanish)
• InfoScience reports with and without pictures (in French)
• CMB report on PhysicsWeb