Dutch professor publishes theory of dark matter as illusion

[P4-630]

"A Dutch professor has published a theory that dark matter is nothing more than an illusion.According to his theory, the measured gravity galaxies can be explained in any other way than by assuming a dark matter.

Professor Erik Verlinde, which is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam, published its work Monday night on arXiv, a site where scientists can put items on before they appear in scientific journals after peer reviews.

The 54-year-old Verlinde builds according to the Times upon his own theory of gravity of six years ago.Which implies that gravity caused by the reassignment of information, in place of that it would be an inherent power of mass.

The theory arose ditto dark matter and energy that scientists could not explain certain observations. As galaxies would have too little mass in the observed stars to stay together and there would be insufficient baryonic mass to fully explain phenomena such as gravitational lenses.

The new theory of Verlinde line with the demonstrated expansion of the universe. Gravity would in his view be an emergent property caused by entropy. The entropy would decrease by the expansion and that would have an elastic effect on the masses; the volume of spacetime might want to spring for the smaller volume back and that would provide a resilient, or gravity. This would extra mass in the universe, in the form of theoretical dark matter, are not necessary for the force of gravity which is observed to explain.

Verlinde thus runs directly counter to the view of many scientists in recent decades. It is still unknown how fellow scientists respond to his theory."

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Translated with google translate.

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/117647/...theorie-over-donkere-materie-als-illusie.html

Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02269v1.pdf

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

Will definitively read the paper! Thank you!

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I think it loses something in translation....i got a bit confused a couple of times.

 

[silkstone]

Interesting, though the word 'theory' should be changed to 'Hypothesis'

 

[P4-630]

I think it loses something in translation....i got a bit confused a couple of times.

Sorry about that but at least you can read this:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02269v1.pdf

November 7 2016
Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
Erik Verlinde
Delta-Institute for Theoretical Physics Institute of Physics,
University of Amsterdam Science Park 904,
1090 GL Amsterdam The Netherlands

All in English

 

[Sasqui]

I wonder how popular he'll be with his "peers". People don't particularly like it when you counter their fundamental beliefs.

 

[erixx]

^Well, not that I am a fellower of the Cult of the Dark Matter, so what gives? Fundamental what? More food for thought!

 

[R-T-B]

I wonder how popular he'll be with his "peers". People don't particularly like it when you counter their fundamental beliefs.

One of the core problems with human nature, that.

 

[W1zzard]

How does he explain gravitational lensing?

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

How does he explain gravitational lensing?

As far as I get it his theory degenerates on Einstein's when a linear approximation is considered.

 

[Steevo]

How does he explain gravitational lensing?

It looks and reads like he is proposing that matter displaces space-time as opposed to condensing space-time which would lead to the same lensing effects we would see, and gravity itself is the resultant force of displaced space-time.

But I'm not a theoretical physicist.

 

[Caring1]

How does he explain gravitational lensing?

Light refraction in the atmospheres?

 

[Sasqui]

^Well, not that I am a fellower of the Cult of the Dark Matter, so what gives? Fundamental what? More food for thought!

Then you're an exception to the general rule. That's a good thing

 

[P4-630]

http://www.uva.nl/en/news-events/ne...ory-of-gravity-might-explain-dark-matter.html

 

[erixx]

Then you're an exception to the general rule. That's a good thing

I am nobody :-D But scientists are members of associations etc and when mediocre behave sometimes like any other flock...