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We point out that recent Verlinde’s proposal of emergent gravity suffers from some internal inconsistencies. The main idea in this proposal is to preserve general relativity at short scales where numerous tests verified its validity, but modify it on large scales where we meet puzzles raised by observations (in particular dark matter), by using some entropic concepts. We first point out that gravity as a conservative force is very difficult (if possible at all) to portray as an entropic force. We then show that the derivation of the MOND relation using the elastic strain idea is not self-consistent. When properly done, Verlinde’s elaborate procedure recovers the standard Newtonian gravity instead of MOND.
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Dai, DC., Stojkovic, D. Inconsistencies in Verlinde’s emergent gravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 7 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)007
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)007