entropic gravity

Even so, entropic gravity in its current form has been severely challenged on formal grounds.

Also, a specific microscopic model has been proposed that indeed leads to entropic gravity emerging at large scales.

According to Kobakhidze, though, it is the second extra term that really throws a wrench into entropic gravity.

(See also Entropic gravity).

At a symposium at the Dutch Spinoza-institute on 8 December 2009 he introduced a theory of Entropic gravity.

He has been a prominent critic of loop quantum gravity, Garrett Lisi's "E8 Theory", and entropic gravity.

Entropic gravity, as proposed by Verlinde in his original article, reproduces Einstein field equations and, in a Newtonian approximation, a 1/r potential for gravitational forces.

One article on this topic that I found useful (which also has an extensive discussion) is titled "It From Bit - Entropic Gravity For Pedestrians".

Entropic gravity is a hypothesis in modern physics that describes gravity as an entropic force; not a fundamental interaction mediated by a quantum field theory and a gauge particle (like photons for the electromagnetic force, and gluons for the color force), but a probabilistic consequence of physical systems' tendency to increase their entropy.