{"id":3875,"date":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2010\/10\/05\/on-grave-matters-about-gravity\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"on-grave-matters-about-gravity","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/on-grave-matters-about-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"On Grave Matters About Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Vatche Sahakian<\/p>\n<p>A  few months ago, Erik Verlinde, a string theorist from the Netherlands, conjectured a new principle in physics &mdash; one with potential to ruin the careers and lives of many physicists&#8230; In short, Verlinde proposes that gravity is really not a force! The claim is inspired from works in general relativity and string theory during the past decades, but can actually be excised from both and be seen instead as a counterpoint. And it is surprisingly simple and easy to understand. But is it correct? Or, as Niels Bohr would say, is this idea crazy but not crazy enough to be true? I will present a critical look of this conjecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3875","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}