Hold on! Erik Verlinde believes that gravity doesn't exist.
Erik Verlinde, 48, a respected string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam contends that gravity is an illusion.
He argued in a recent paper, titled “On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton,” that gravity is merely a consequence of the laws of thermodynamics
The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
Gravity is explained as an entropic force caused by changes in the information associated with the positions of material bodies - the thermodynamic limit of the statistical mechanics of atoms of space-time.
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