Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.

Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.

Isaac Newton was never entirely happy with his law of universal gravitation. For decades after publishing it in 1687, he sought to understand how, exactly, two objects were able to pull on each other from afar. He and others came up with several mechanical models, in which gravity was not a pull, but a push. For example, space might be filled with unseen particles that bombard the objects on all… Source