>Dutch prodigy and Amsterdam University Professor Erik Verlinde published a paper on arXiv yesterday, November 7, titled "Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe." In the paper, Verlinde derives gravity from the so-called Holographic Principle, which -- simply put -- states that gravity emerges from the interplay between and entropy re-arrangement of sub-atomic "strings" that live in a negatively curved spacetime. At that level [...] spacetime and gravity are emergent from an underlying microscopic description in which they have no a priori meaning." Most importantly, Verlinde's paper has as a consequence that dark matter, nemesis of many an astronomer, is nothing more than an illusion. Verlinde, who was awarded the Dutch national Spinoza science prize in the recent past, already completed the tour de force of deriving Newtonian gravity from the same principles in a 2010 paper, also on arXiv. We are probably looking at Nobel-prize material here, as Verlinde is acknowledged by his peers to "go one better than Einstein's General Theory of Relativity."
New theory of gravity. einstein BTFO
So oddball gravity might not be a fundamental force after all. Hmm.
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DUDE, FUCKING YES. I had this idea recently! My reasoning came from an observation that entropic data in cohesive homotopy type theory yields a free notion of curvature, compatible with differential cohesion. The reason gravity is incompatible with the other fundamental forces is because it is the emergency of local interactions. This is exciting stuff, thanks for sharing.
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is he /our guy/?
It's too bad it's not readable for many folks. It'd be nice if this were written so that no terms that are hyper-field-specific were used without first defining them in simpler terms. How many textbooks must I read just to get to the meat of the intro?
You're a funny guy.
Give it to the military. They specialize in writing manuals at a 6th grade educational level.
It's bullshit.