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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > the original paper: > > > http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785 > > 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. > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
