If you’ll remember from our studies of String Theory and gravitons, I made the statement that I’m not a big fan of including gravity as a fundamental force of nature.

The New York Times has an in-depth piece that explains this more…

A Scientist Takes On Gravity – NYTimes.com: “So says 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.”

You gotta love science!