Will Dark Matter Become A Footnote In Science History?

Posted: 12/18/2016

Amazing stuff! This could be a huge discovery and possibly a new theory of gravity! Very exciting stuff!

Just read  Verlinde's new theory of gravity passes first test (Source: S1) and New theory of gravity might explain dark matter (Source: S2)

Excerpts (emphasis added):

1. “In 2010, Erik Verlinde surprised the world with a completely new theory of gravity. According to Verlinde, gravity is not a fundamental force of nature, but an emergent phenomenon. In the same way that temperature arises from the movement of microscopic particles, gravity emerges from the changes of fundamental bits of information, stored in the very structure of spacetime.” (S2)
2. “One of the ingredients in Verlinde's theory is an adaptation of the holographic principle, introduced by his tutor Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Prize 1999, Utrecht University) and Leonard Susskind (Stanford University). … all the information in the entire universe can be described on a giant imaginary sphere around it. Verlinde now shows that this idea is not quite correct—part of the information in our universe is contained in space itself. This extra information is required to describe ... Dark energy, which is believed to be responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe.” (S2)
3. “Gravity is in dire need of new approaches like the one by Verlinde, since it doesn't combine well with quantum physics. Both theories, crown jewels of 20th century physics, cannot be true at the same time.” (S2)
4. “We might be standing on the brink of a new scientific revolution that will radically change our views on the very nature of space, time and gravity."” (S2)
5. “A team led by astronomer Margot Brouwer (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands) has tested the new theory of theoretical physicist Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam) for the first time through the lensing effect of gravity. Brouwer and her team measured the distribution of gravity around more than 33,000 galaxies to put Verlinde's prediction to the test. She concludes that Verlinde's theory agrees well with the measured gravity distribution.” (S1)