Session B2: Astrophysics
1:30 PM–3:30 PM, Friday, November 11, 2011
Bldg 48 - ROB Room: Redwood C/D
Chair: Virginia Trimble, University of California, Irvine
Abstract ID: BAPS.2011.CAL.B2.9
Abstract: B2.00009 : Conformal theory of galactic halos
3:06 PM–3:18 PM
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Abstract 
Author:
Robert K. Nesbet
(IBM Almaden Research Center)
In current cosmology, an observed galaxy is considered to be surrounded by a large spherical halo attributed to dark matter. Galaxy formation by condensation of mass-energy necessarily depletes the original uniform cosmic background. This must leave a scar, in the form of a gravitational field halo, as observed in anomalous galactic rotation and in gravitational lensing. Without invoking dark matter, conformal theory accounts for the otherwise counterintuitive centripetal effect.
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