>>16719858> ^ My earlier replyActually I take back my earlier reply. Eric Verlinde said a hologram might do the trick and I believe him with no evidence other than a vague similarity to thermodynamic equations. Gravity isn't real.
> "* Jacobson's Work: Ted Jacobson, in the mid-1990s, showed that Einstein's field equations (the core of general relativity) could be derived from the first law of thermodynamics, dE = TdS - PdV, applied to local Rindler horizons in spacetime. This was a crucial hint that gravity might be thermodynamic in origin. * Verlinde's Extension: Entropic Force: Verlinde built on these ideas, suggesting that if gravity behaves like an entropic force, it should be possible to derive its laws from fundamental thermodynamic principles."
> "Erik Verlinde describes gravity not as a fundamental force, but as an emergent phenomenon. This means that gravity arises from something more basic, similar to how temperature or pressure emerge from the statistical behavior of many microscopic particles."> "* Entropic Gravity: Verlinde proposes that gravity is an "entropic force." Entropic forces arise from the tendency of systems to move towards states of higher entropy (disorder or information dispersal). * Holographic Principle: His theory incorporates the holographic principle, which suggests that the information describing a volume of space can be encoded on its boundary, a "holographic screen."
* Microscopic Degrees of Freedom: Gravity, in Verlinde's view, arises from the statistical behavior of microscopic degrees of freedom encoded on this holographic screen. When matter is present, it changes the distribution of information, leading to a change in entropy, which we perceive as the gravitational force."