[MD] Gravity

[Ian Glendinning]

Interesting article, dreadful journalism.

Nothing to suggest Gravity is not real or is illusory.
Just an attempt to explain it - by a string theorist (!)

The focus on space and information is encouraging, but still hanging
on to those strings (!) - I doubt it, but I could be wrong.

Ian

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:04 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> Starting from first principles and general assumptions Newton's law of gravitation is shown to arise naturally and unavoidably in a theory in which space is emergent through a holographic scenario. Gravity is explained as an entropic force caused by changes in the information associated with the positions of material bodies. A relativistic generalization of the presented arguments directly leads to the Einstein equations. When space is emergent even Newton's law of inertia needs to be explained. The equivalence principle leads us to conclude that it is actually this law of inertia whose origin is entropic.
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