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Is Gravity Just an Average of the Behavior of Unknown “Atoms” of Spacetime?

Member-only story Physics Math Quantum Physics Science Space Deriving Einstein’s Gravity Equations From Thermodynamics Is Gravity Just an Average of the Behavior of Unknown “Atoms” of Spacetime? Marco Tavora Ph.D. 17 min read · Jan 16, 2021 -- 1 Listen Share Image by Bronisław Dróżka from Pixabay . Emergent gravity is an idea in quantum gravity according to which the fabric of spacetime is not fundamental but emerges as a coarse-graining approximation of underlying (still unknown) microscopic degrees of freedom (similarly to a gas emerging from a large sampling of atoms or molecules). In the w

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