On November 8th 2016, Professor Eric Verlinde of the University of Amsterdam published a paper that proposes a new theory of gravity. Professor Verlinde suggests that Dark Matter doesn't really exist. Dark Matter is the name for an invisible substance that scientist believes makes up 27% of all of the mass in the universe. It has been used to explain inconsistencies in the gravitational rotations of galaxies.
The new theory is called Emergent Gravity, and was actually first proposed by Professor Verlinde in a paper he wrote in 2010. In that paper, Professor Verlinde put forth that gravity is not a true force of nature, but it emerges as the result of an exchange of bits of information that are fundamental and stored in space time it self. In his latest work, Professor Verlinde contends that it is this information exchange and not Dark Matter that gives rise to gravitational effects observed across the universe.
Professor Verlinde contends that the bits of information stored in space time are actually the effect of the amount entropy in the universe. Entropy is the second law of thermal dynamics which states that things in a given system tend to move from order to disorder. According to Professor Verlinde, this can also account for what is being called Dark Energy. Dark Energy has been described as gravity's propensity to push objects away from each other and is credited with the accelerated expansion of the universe.
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