Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe

Re:Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe by SomeStupidPoint on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:08PM (#12904776)

I mean, one could argue that perhaps EM is really a special kind of gravitational ripple (eg, geons might work out in quantum gravity to model electrons and photons, and then the question arises that if all EM is gravity induced and modeled, is EM not part of gravity?), but I don't know that I've heard it the other way.

It's also certainly not the mainstream view, as classical geons are extremely unstable.

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Re:Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe by M_Grey on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:58PM (#12905085)

I'm not sure how EM and Gravity could be unified as a single force, especially since the best theory of gravity that's out there describes gravity as curvature in spacetime, not a force.

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Re:Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe by wallace_f on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:37PM (#12905453)

If this is true, the literature I've read--as a layman myself reading from sources written for the layman on the subject--is wildly misleading.

i.e. from the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

>Other theorists seek to quantize the gravitational field by the modelling behaviour of its hypothetical force carrier, the graviton and achieve quantum gravity (QG).

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