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Emergent Gravity and Decoherence: A Comparative Review of the Entropic Force Paradigm and Quantum Noise Signatures
Abstract This literature review explores the radical paradigm of emergent gravity, which posits that gravitational interaction is not a fundamental force, but a statistical phenomenon arising from quantum information and the thermodynamics of spacetime. We establish that this approach interprets general relativity as a macroscopic, effective theory—analogous to classical thermodynamics—derived from the coarse-grained behavior of…
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Entropic Gravity Explained: How Quantum Thermodynamics Could Replace Gravitons
Impact on Spaceflight Operations For decades, physicists have understood fundamental forces like electromagnetism and gravity as being mediated by quantum fields and virtual particles, such as photons and gravitons. At the same time, some forces in nature—like pressure in a gas—emerge not from fundamental interactions but from thermodynamic principles, driven by entropy and free energy.…