Gravity as an emergent phenomenon: A conceptual description
arXiv:0706.1654 · doi:10.1063/1.2803795
Abstract
I describe several broad features of a programme to understand gravity as an emergent, long wavelength, phenomenon (like elasticity) and discuss one concrete framework for realizing this paradigm in the backdrop of several recent results.
11 p; AIP stylefiles included; Summary of several plenary talks in the conferences including XXIII Texas Symposium in Relativistic Astrophysics (Melbourne, Dec, 06); IAGRG Meeting (Delhi, Feb, 07); International workshop on theoretical high energy physics (Roorkee, Mar, 2007); to appear in the proceedings of IWTHEP