emergence

"Everyone who is working on theoretical physics is trying to improve on Einstein," says Robbert Dijkgraaf, UvA University Professor and current director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (where scientists including Turing, Oppenheimer and Einstein have worked) In my opinion, Erik Verlinde has found an important key for the next step forward."

Verlinde, who received the Spinoza prize (the Dutch Nobel Prize) from the Netherlands Organisation for Science, is famous for developing this new theory, or idea, on gravity in which he says that gravity is an illusion. "Gravity is not an illusion in the sense that we know that things fall," says Verline." Most people, certainly in physics, think we can describe gravity perfectly adequately using Einstein’s General Relativity. But it now seems that we can also start from a microscopic formulation where there is no gravity to begin with, but you can derive it. This is called ‘emergence’."

ここでいっているスピノザ賞というのはオランダの賞で賞金は
2.5 Million Euro
ノーベル賞の3倍。
Verlinde博士もDijkgraaf　博士もスピノザ賞を受賞している。
最初の受賞者はノーベル賞も受賞しているトフッフトだ。
彼らはみなVerlinde博士のこの重力に関する新理論を承知している。
ちなみにDijkgraaf　博士はプリンストン高等研究所の所長も兼任している。

みな超弦理論の専門家でもある。
Verlinde博士は超弦理論で重要なコントリビューションをしたあとで
このエントロピーに起因する重力新理論を打ち出した。