Gravity is an illusion??

To kick off my inaugural blog, I thought I would talk about Dr. Erik Verlinde from Amsterdam and his theory that Gravity is just an illusion.

So in the news story Dr. Erik Verlinde, a String theorist, says that gravity really doesn't exist. He says that it is more like a bi-product of the universe creating chaos. He compares it to frizzing hair: when the weather is hot and humid, your hair curls.

"Dr. Verlinde’s argument turns on something you could call the 'bad hair day' theory of gravity.
It goes something like this: your hair frizzles in the heat and humidity, because there are more ways for your hair to be curled than to be straight, and nature likes options. So it takes a force to pull hair straight and eliminate nature’s options. Forget curved space or the spooky attraction at a distance described by Isaac Newton’s equations well enough to let us navigate the rings of Saturn, the force we call gravity is simply a byproduct of nature’s propensity to maximize disorder."

Now this clip from the New York Times and all his quotes are very vague. He even states himself that his paper is vague. I don't know if you understood that comparison, but I didn't. I understood the original theory Written by Newton.

Gravity is a force. A force created by dense atoms. These dense atoms can be referred to as mass. The more mass, and the more dense the mass, the stronger the gravity and attraction. Then Einstein overturned this theory saying that gravity is actually warps in space time. This to me is harder to understand. Then Dr. Erik Verlinde comes up with his theory which makes even less sense. These theorys become more and more complicated.

Granted that is how Science evolves. At one time, the pinnacle of scientific discovery, was when we were able to rub two sticks together and create fire. Then it became more complicated. Where did the fire come from?? Could it be because friction causes energy; energy causes heat; and heat would eventually cause its surrounding ignition source to combust??

These theorys now a days. I like to compare them to Modern Art. Have you ever been to a MOMA?? Have you seen what they have on display?? Most of the items, look like you or I could have done them. It looks like these "artists" are just scam artists. They can dig around any trash can, take the items found therein, and super glue them together and say they are expressing their feelings.

I once saw a shoe. This shoe had a pencil sticking upright out of the center of the opening of the shoe. On the eraser was a thread spool. Hanging off the edge of the spool was a paper clip and attached to that, was a string with a ball of paper tied to the end.

Now to me, this just sounds ridiculous. The worst was walking into the museum, I saw a fan hanging from its cord. The fan was turned on and swinging across the lobby. To my dismay, I later discovered that the fan was actually an artists piece. But I digress.

Dr. Verlinde says that gravity is an illusion but never gives a cause for it. The reason why it exists may be an illusion, but it IS there. Or when my sister fell of our hammock when she was 9 and broke her arm. Was that the universe's way of creating chaos in her life?? You must understand what I am talking about right?? There has to be a cause for gravity. Every effect has a cause, what is this one? Is it dark matter?? What in the world causes it?? I can feel it every day. The planets orbiting the Sun. That is caused by gravity. If anything this doesn't resemble chaos. It resembles symmetry.

Instead of lumps of rock floating around aimlessly in space colliding with each other creating numerous sites of unparalleled chaos, they are circling one gigantic ball of gas. They are orbiting this ball without colliding (although that sometimes does happen). They orbit one inside the other and other moons orbit those planets. This circular symmetry doesn't seem chaotic. Even the simplest of matter, atoms. They have an elliptical orbit with electrons. If they were chaotic they would be colliding all the time and the universe wouldn't exist.

Dr. Verlinde please. Please explain why I should believe your theory. Maybe I am just not understanding you, maybe you are right, but I need it explained better. Somebody if you think you can clear this up by all means, don't hesitate to explain it.