Verlinde's new entropic gravity paper

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phyzguy

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Nov 8, 2016

Here is the arxiv link. I'd be interested to hear comments from people more expert than I. The claim is that both dark energy and dark matter can be understood as consequences of gravity as an entropic force.

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We already have a thread on this:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/erik-verlindes-new-view-on-dark-matter.755235/

Please comment there.

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