Entropic Gravity

Gravity as emergent from information and entropy

Drag the test particle to see entropy drive apparent gravity. Arrow keys also work.

Entropy Gradient

ΔS/Δr = 0.00 k_B per unit r

Apparent Force

F = 0.00 units

Screen Temperature

T = 0.00 T₀

F = T ΔS/Δr. The entropy gradient stays constant as the particle moves; the screen temperature carries the whole 1/r² falloff, so the force tracks the temperature.

Central mass

Holographic screen

Test particle

Temperature: hot near M, cool far

In Verlinde's framework, gravity is not a force that acts across empty space. It is the statistical tendency of entropy to increase. A mass approaching a holographic screen changes the entropy, and that entropy gradient is what we experience as gravitational attraction. Gravity is thermodynamics in disguise.