Can MOND type hypotheses be tested in a free fall laboratory
  environment?
  The extremely small accelerations of objects required for the the onset of
modified Newtonian dynamics, or MOND, makes testing the hypothesis in
conventional terrestrial laboratories virtually impossible. This is due to the
large background acceleration of Earth, which is transmitted to the
acceleration of test objects within an apparatus. We show however, that it may
be possible to test MOND-type hypotheses with experiments using a conventional
apparatus capable of tracking very small accelerations of its components, but
performed in locally inertial frames such as artificial satellites and other
freely falling laboratories. For example, experiments involving an optical
interferometer or a torsion balance in these laboratories would show nonlinear
dynamics, and displacement amplitudes larger than expected. These experiments
may also be able to test potential violations of the strong equivalence
principle by MOND and to distinguish between its two possible interpretations
(modified inertia and modified gravity).
