Friday, July 16, 2010

"We’ve known for a long time that gravity doesn’t exist"

A Scientist Takes On Gravity - NYTimes.com: "Dr. Verlinde’s argument turns on something you could call the “bad hair day” theory of gravity.

It goes something like this: your hair frizzles in the heat and humidity, because there are more ways for your hair to be curled than to be straight, and nature likes options. So it takes a force to pull hair straight and eliminate nature’s options. Forget curved space or the spooky attraction at a distance described by Isaac Newton’s equations well enough to let us navigate the rings of Saturn, the force we call gravity is simply a byproduct of nature’s propensity to maximize disorder."

..."'We’ve known for a long time that gravity doesn’t exist,' Dr. Verlinde said, 'It’s time to yell it.'”

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