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nomadreid
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The concepts in "On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton" by Prof. Erik Verlinde, found at http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1001/1001.0785v1.pdf, are intriguing. There are two points which I do not understand, and would be grateful for any enlightenment. First, why is the holographic principle necessary for his derivation? Secondly, I do not understand how he gets from the classical holographic principle operating on the border of the observable universe to the idea of the two-dimensional screens being able to be anywhere in space.