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Emergent Gravity Disproved

Posted by timothy on from the what-does-this-guy-know? dept.

kdawson writes "A paper up on the ArXiv claims to disprove the gravity-from-entropy theory of Erik Verlinde, which we discussed soon after he introduced the idea in a symposium late in 2009. Archil Kobakhidze says that experiments measuring the effect of gravity on quantum particles (neutrons in this case) match results expected from classical Newtonian gravity, not Verlindian entropic gravity. Here is Kobakhidze's paper (PDF)."

3 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Here we go again by Zedrick · · Score: 5, Funny

    > I am a gravitational theorist.

    I don't even understand what that title means, but it sounds very cool.

  2. Re:Here we go again by patlabor · · Score: 5, Funny

    > I am a gravitational theorist.

    I don't even understand what that title means, but it sounds very cool.

    He attracts a lot of ideas...

  3. Gravity again? by The+Creator · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought that we decided to go with intelligent falling?

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    FRA: STFU GTFO