phoenixbouncing
phoenixbouncing t1_ixji82d wrote
Reply to comment by HandMeDownCumSock in Lopsided star cluster may disprove Newton and Einstein, controversial new study claims. An uneven distribution of stars in several nearby clusters may offer evidence of MOND — a controversial theory of gravity that disputes Newton and rejects the existence of dark matter. by nimobo
For one thing relativity breaks down on the quantum scale, and there's nothing in the math to explain it.
Einstein spent the last years of his life trying to figure out how to merge his theory with quantum mechanics.
phoenixbouncing t1_ixjipjm wrote
Reply to comment by Dave10293847 in Lopsided star cluster may disprove Newton and Einstein, controversial new study claims. An uneven distribution of stars in several nearby clusters may offer evidence of MOND — a controversial theory of gravity that disputes Newton and rejects the existence of dark matter. by nimobo
This doesn't necessarily mean relativity's wrong, what it means is that there are parts of cosmology that we can't explain using relativity and hence have placeholders there whilst we work out what they are.
Of course relativity could be wrong, and a new theory might not need the placeholders, but in that case it's going to need to explain everything relativity does, and the formation of galaxies and the expanding universe, all whilst not having too many arbitrary constants.