Drakkith said:
Unless I'm mistaken, nothing in that paper says anything about black holes, which is what I was asking for a reference to.
when it comes to large scale lensing, 1 erik verlinde paper has received considerable press and offers new equations and
2 the following paper shows that Verlinde MOND-like version of gravity can reproduce darkmatter like lensing as it makes gravity stronger over large distances.
no need to modify the SM. no need to introduce new particles
so using a MOND-like gravity like Verlinde can explain most of the lensing seen in bullet clusters, and whatever is residual can be explained as black holes.
Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
Erik P. Verlinde
(Submitted on 7 Nov 2016 (
v1), last revised 8 Nov 2016 (this version, v2))
Recent theoretical progress indicates that spacetime and gravity emerge together from the entanglement structure of an underlying microscopic theory. These ideas are best understood in Anti-de Sitter space, where they rely on the area law for entanglement entropy. The extension to de Sitter space requires taking into account the entropy and temperature associated with the cosmological horizon. Using insights from string theory, black hole physics and quantum information theory we argue that the positive dark energy leads to a thermal volume law contribution to the entropy that overtakes the area law precisely at the cosmological horizon. Due to the competition between area and volume law entanglement the microscopic de Sitter states do not thermalise at sub-Hubble scales: they exhibit memory effects in the form of an entropy displacement caused by matter. The emergent laws of gravity contain an additional `dark' gravitational force describing the `elastic' response due to the entropy displacement. We derive an estimate of the strength of this extra force in terms of the baryonic mass, Newton's constant and the Hubble acceleration scale a_0 =cH_0, and provide evidence for the fact that this additional `dark gravity~force' explains the observed phenomena in galaxies and clusters currently attributed to dark matter.
Comments: 5 figures
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
Cite as:
arXiv:1611.02269 [hep-th]
First test of Verlinde's theory of Emergent Gravity using Weak Gravitational Lensing measurements
Margot M. Brouwer,
Manus R. Visser,
Andrej Dvornik,
Henk Hoekstra,
Konrad Kuijken,
Edwin A. Valentijn,
Maciej Bilicki,
Chris Blake,
Sarah Brough,
Hugo Buddelmeijer,
Thomas Erben,
Catherine Heymans,
Hendrik Hildebrandt,
Benne W. Holwerda,
Andrew M. Hopkins,
Dominik Klaes,
Jochen Liske,
Jon Loveday,
John McFarland,
Reiko Nakajima,
Cristóbal Sifón,
Edward N. Taylor
(Submitted on 9 Dec 2016 (
v1), last revised 19 Dec 2016 (this version, v2))
Verlinde (2016) proposed that the observed excess gravity in galaxies and clusters is the consequence of Emergent Gravity (EG). In this theory the standard gravitational laws are modified on galactic and larger scales due to the displacement of dark energy by baryonic matter. EG gives an estimate of the excess gravity (described as an apparent dark matter density) in terms of the baryonic mass distribution and the Hubble parameter. In this work we present the first test of EG using weak gravitational lensing, within the regime of validity of the current model. Although there is no direct description of lensing and cosmology in EG yet, we can make a reasonable estimate of the expected lensing signal of low redshift galaxies by assuming a background LambdaCDM cosmology. We measure the (apparent) average surface mass density profiles of 33,613 isolated central galaxies, and compare them to those predicted by EG based on the galaxies' baryonic masses. To this end we employ the ~180 square degrees overlap of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) with the spectroscopic Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. We find that the prediction from EG, despite requiring no free parameters, is in good agreement with the observed galaxy-galaxy lensing profiles in four different stellar mass bins. Although this performance is remarkable, this study is only a first step. Further advancements on both the theoretical framework and observational tests of EG are needed before it can be considered a fully developed and solidly tested theory.
Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Added references for section 1 and 6
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stw3192
Cite as:
arXiv:1612.03034 [astro-ph.CO]