The Dutch physicist Erik Verlinde thinks a new theory of gravity on the trail. And that would include dark matter superfluous.
The world has there good amount of time to wait, but now it is still: the article by physicist Erik Verlinde, in which he his new theory of gravity explains. With his ideas he followed in the footsteps of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein as its impressive theoretical edifice entirely correct, and our reality appears to describe. It Is indeed so, than we are according to Verlinde in one fell swoop, got rid of the issues of dark matter and dark energy.
In the theory of Verlinde existence of space, time and gravity at the smallest scale, writes Manus Fisherman in an extensive, Dutch description of the theory. Instead, information is the fundamental building block. The universe can be seen as composed of bits, which is a quantum mechanical relationship with each other maintain. And that band is, as it were, the glue that holds them together.
another element of the structure of Verlinde is that the amount of information a region in the space, is proportional to the surface area of that part of the city. That in itself is not a new idea. But, says Verlinde: because our universe is accelerated expanding, a phenomenon that we are now at the so-called dark energy is due, also provides the volume of such an area, a small contribution to that amount of information.
A consequence of Verlinde’s theory is that, when you somewhere in the universe mass do arise, the distribution of information about the space changes. That change leads to resistance; the information which you move, "pushing back". That phenomenon would not only gravity, but also on a large scale exactly the observations declare that are now being attributed to dark matter.
No quantumzwaartekracht need
The idea of dark matter outside of game, is, in principle, of course, very tempting. At present, most physicists that this invisible form of matter consists of a new type of particle, but experiments are successful, but not in that. It is also nice that the dark energy has a clear place in the whole.
finally, Verlinde a big problem out of the way by stating that gravity "does not exist" at the smallest level. Therefore, it is not necessary to have a quantum mechanical version to think of Einstein’s relativity theory – something that physicists have for decades to work, so far without really convincing results.
'Great revolution'
however, it is Important to realize that the article of Verlinde although it is published online, but has not yet been uitgevlooid by their peers. That would, in principle, with all sorts of hooks and eyes on the stuff. Also, it is not clear whether Verlinde’s theory is able to make all the observations of dark matter to explain it.
Itself has Verlinde there are, however, confident that he has something great is on the trail. Opposite of New Scientist he says: "Not everyone sees it, but I think we are on the verge of a revolution that is as great as or perhaps greater than that of the quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity with each other."
We’ll see.
Sources: ArXiv.org, The Quantum Universe, New Scientist,