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by naasking 1051 days ago
> And you would get the empirical MOND relation in galaxy dynamics. But it's certianly not a MONDian theory in spirit. There is no modified gravity to be seen here.

There is no such thing as "purity" in physics. The whole reason most people work on MOND is because it provides a simple effective theory for not only describing observations with fewer parameters than cold dark matter, but predicting them more effectively. Every MONDian paper I've read has effectively been saying, "stop ignoring this obvious relation in preference to unnecessarily complicated and ad-hoc DM that provides no predictive power". If a superfluid or other dark matter theory derived MONDian dynamics, then pretty much everyone would be happy with that.