So I read an article discussing gravity, called A Scientist takes on Gravity., in which the author of a recent paper, (titled �On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton,�)
describes gravity not as its own force, but as a "side-effect" of the laws of thermodynamics.
�What is new, he said, is the idea that differences in entropy can be the driving mechanism behind gravity, that gravity is, as he puts it an �entropic force.�
I had to read the article a few times to see where he was going with it, (and I haven't actually read the paper yet, but it's downloaded to my desktop) and I may be pretty far off, but it seems to me that what he's describing is similar (in a simplified way) to the way low- and high-pressure zones in weather patterns cause the wind to blow (or rather, suck - wind is caused by air rushing from a high-pressure zone into a low-pressure area). Matter wants to congregate in high-entropic areas, as homogenized chaos is the universe's natural state, therefore, it "gravitates" towards other high-chaos "areas".
That's what I see right now, anyway. I'll have to keep looking at it & see if I can make anything else out, or even see where I might have misinterpreted it. Anyway, I love reading/pondering this kind of thing!
10:33 a.m. - 2010-07-16
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