On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton

[Darkpassenger]

Not sure if anyone posted this yet i searched a little on the site but did not find anything.

 

anyway check this out and let me know what you think.

 

Author of paper and work in a PDF file you have to download to see in upper right corner of page http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785

 

Audio: http://www.twis.org/audio/2010/01/12/420/ this is a very good but silly podcast you can get a lot of Breaking news science stuff from.

 

Video form the site: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~erikv/page4/page6/page6.html

 

cited info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

 

more: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/25KFJt/arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785

 

more: http://www.scientificblogging.com/hammock_physicist/it_bit_case_gravity

[ajb]

You will have to give us time to digest the work.

 

What I can say is that the author Erik Verlinde has written in collaboration with Robbert Dijkgraaf and Cumrun Vafa.

[Darkpassenger]

Sorry i forgot to put in the collaborators but yes take you time a lot of info here

[ajb]

Sorry i forgot to put in the collaborators but yes take you time a lot of info here

 

All I mean is that Verlinde has good credentials.

 

I enjoyed the paper in question, it is very heuristic and hand-waving, but Verlinde acknowledges that.

 

The idea that gravity and space-time could be emergent is not new and has been discussed in various approaches to quantum gravity. I think his contribution to this is thinking of gravity in terms of entropy in the way he has.

 

I'll digest it more. Thanks for bringing it up.

[michel123456]

Good credentials are a must.

 

From E.Verlinde's pdf page 6, Emergence of the Laws of Newton

 

"Space is in the first place a device introduced to describe the positions and movements of particles. Space is therefore literally just a storage space for information. This information is naturally associated with matter. Given that the maximal allowed information is finite for each part of space, it is impossible to localize a particle with infinite precision at a point of a continuum space. In fact, points and coordinates arise as derived concepts. One could assume that information is stored in points of a

discretized space (like in a lattice model)."

 

_"Space is a device introduced to describe......"

_"Space is a storage space for information."

_"information is naturally associated with matter"

_"information is stored in points of a discretized space"

 

IMO it is the transformation of a human device into a physical element of nature.