Physicists Say They Know the Origin of Gravity

Sabine Hossenfelder Podcast 12 days ago

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Recently, a pair of researchers made a massive breakthrough in the foundations of physics. In their paper, they describe how gravity is an emergent property. More specifically, they say that the origin of gravity is entropy. And not just any entropy, but the entropy of quantum fields. How big is this really? Let’s take a look.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.1103/lmq8-nsty

#science #physics #sciencefacts #quantum #gravity

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