On Jul 14, 12:23*pm, Damon Hill wrote:
Brad Guth wrote in news:6a2d42e6-e5e6-4c77-9cb1-
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On Jul 14, 1:37*am, Damon Hill wrote:
wrote innews:d2758590-1d7f-4bf9-a9a5-fe4159da751c@m
35g2000prn.googlegroups.com:

"Erik Verlinde, 48, a respected string theorist and
professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam,
whose contention that gravity is indeed an illusion
has caused a continuing ruckus among physicists,
or at least among those who profess to understand it.
Reversing the logic of 300 years of science, he
argued in a recent paper, titled “On the Origin of Gravity
and the Laws of Newton,” that gravity is a consequence
of the venerable laws of thermodynamics, which describe
the behavior of heat and gases."

See:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/sc...?_r=1&no_inter
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titial

Thermodynamics? *Who knew?

Let's get Bcon1 and Hammy the Squirrel in on this and see what their
take is. *Brad? *You still out there? *I mean, way, WAY out there?

When the going gets weirder, the weirder REALLY get going.

--Damon, up late and going on dark chocolate

You just don''t like any ideas or interpretation that's not your own.

Oops, it seems you and other parrots don't have any original ideas,
and you can't interpret squat.

On the contrary; it takes a really original mind to look at things
from a fresh perspective. *Given our poor understanding of gravity,
a better understanding might seem crazy or at least very difficult
to understand.

I'm way out of my depth here, but the results could be fun. *If I
could understand it...

--Damon

What we know for certain is that our mainstream science and physics
hasn't an honest clue as to what makes gravity tick, at least there's
not any two wizards that'll agree, much less objectively prove their
interpretation is correct.

~ BG