Inconsistencies in Verlinde’s emergent gravity

A bstract We point out that recent Verlinde’s proposal of emergent gravity suffers from some internal inconsistencies. The main idea in this proposal is to preserve general relativity at short scales where numerous tests verified its validity, but modify it on large scales where we meet puzzles rais...

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Published inThe journal of high energy physics Vol. 2017; no. 11; pp. 1 - 7
Main Authors Dai, De-Chang, Stojkovic, Dejan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.11.2017
Springer Nature B.V
SpringerOpen
Subjects
Classical and Quantum Gravitation
Classical Theories of Gravity
Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
Dark matter
Elementary Particles
Gravitation
High energy physics
Models of Quantum Gravity
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Field Theories
Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Physics
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Relativity
Relativity Theory
Strain
String Theory
Classical Theories of Gravity
Models of Quantum Gravity
Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
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Summary:A bstract We point out that recent Verlinde’s proposal of emergent gravity suffers from some internal inconsistencies. The main idea in this proposal is to preserve general relativity at short scales where numerous tests verified its validity, but modify it on large scales where we meet puzzles raised by observations (in particular dark matter), by using some entropic concepts. We first point out that gravity as a conservative force is very difficult (if possible at all) to portray as an entropic force. We then show that the derivation of the MOND relation using the elastic strain idea is not self-consistent. When properly done, Verlinde’s elaborate procedure recovers the standard Newtonian gravity instead of MOND.
ISSN:1029-8479
1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP11(2017)007