Erik Verlinde: Gravity Doesn’t Exist | Big Think

Gravity Doesn’t Exist?? New videos DAILY: Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a study that asked 515 people why they went into a hookup, 50 percent of women and 52 percent of men reported that they hoped to trigger a longer relationship. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERIK VERLINDE: Erik Verlinde is a theoretical physicist and string theorist and the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam. The “Verlinde formula,“ which relates to conformal field theory and topological field theory, is named after him. In a paper called “On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton,“ published in January, 2010, Verlinde introduced a new approach to the idea of gravity, positing that it is not a fundamental force but an “emergent p