Is Gravity for Real?
This will probably have no impact to your day job but, it is interesting though.
NYTimes reports a string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, offers a new light on gravity.
But what if it’s (gravity) all an illusion, a sort of cosmic frill, or a side effect of something else going on at deeper levels of reality?
It goes something like this: your hair frizzles in the heat and humidity, because there are more ways for your hair to be curled than to be straight, and nature likes options. So it takes a force to pull hair straight and eliminate nature’s options. Forget curved space or the spooky attraction at a distance described by Isaac Newton’s equations well enough to let us navigate the rings of Saturn, the force we call gravity is simply a byproduct of nature’s propensity to maximize disorder.
“Some of the best physicists in the world say” the article continues, “they don’t understand Dr. Verlinde’s paper…”
Neither do I; but then again, it has no impact to my day job.
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