ON THE MAXWELLIAN ALTERNATIVE TO THE GALACTIC DARK-MATTER PROBLEM

Recently a new type of gravitational coupling due to a gravo-inductive force field generated by mass currents was introduced to account for constant rotation velocities at large distances from galactic cores. I t is pointed out that the exact analogy with electromagnetism assumed in postulating this force would for reason of consistency imply a vani shingly small coupling rather than the anomalously large coupling requ ired. The gravo-inductive radiation is compared with gravitational rad iation for its role in the damping of the motion of bound systems.