On 12/14/2012 6:52 PM, Henry Baker wrote:
Perhaps Erik Verlinde is right after all--that gravity--including that caused by "dark matter"--is a result of the holographic universe that is pumped up by information that is stored (or at least reflected) on the surface surrounding any simply-connected volume. In fact, "dark energy" might also fall out of his theory, as well.
If you believe in inflation and the holographic universe at the same time, you must agree that during inflation, something pumped gigantic amounts of information into the universe in such a way that its volume& therefore surface area had to expand enough so that there was enough surface area to represent all of that new information. If "dark energy" is responsible for the continued expansion of the universe, then that dark energy is associated with a source of additional information.
There's another possibility. QM allows negative entropy, essentially entropy that is subtracted to avoid over counting the states of entangled particles. It may be that the total entropy of the universe is much smaller than it appears because of correlations that we are not taking into account. Brent