Re:And then refuted virtually instantaneously... (Score 1)

i've read both papers and footnote 11 in the original paper speaks directly to the criticism. the claimed discontinuity is an artifact of the chosen coordinate system, not the metric. redefine the coordinates and the problem goes away, but the math becomes much more hairy. my problem with the original paper is that they fit rotation curves with less than 30 data points with a model with 20 free parameters. of course it's going to fit.........