Gravity as an Emergent Phenomenon

Gravity as an Emergent Phenomenon
John Je rey Damasco
19 December 2012
Abstract
While general relativity explains gravitational interactions well, it only answers the
question of the nature of gravity by telling us that the geometry of space-time is gravity.
Some physicists theorize that gravity is not fundamental, but emergent. Two of the
theories that this paper will examine propose gravity as an emergent phenomenon rely
on entropy as the origin of gravity or propose that it is a result of examining a quantum
eld theory on a Lorentz manifold. While these new theories of gravity are certainly
attractive, experimental results refute some theories of emergent gravity, and there
exist theoretical arguments against the general idea of emergent gravity.

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