{"id":32797,"date":"2016-12-19T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T19:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-new-theory-of-gravity-just-passed-its-first-test-heres-what-this-means-for-physics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:57:24","slug":"a-new-theory-of-gravity-just-passed-its-first-test-heres-what-this-means-for-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-new-theory-of-gravity-just-passed-its-first-test-heres-what-this-means-for-physics","title":{"rendered":"A New Theory of Gravity Just Passed its First Test. Here\u2019s What This Means for Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynRVnIh6wq4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Verlinde\u2019s emergent gravity theory makes one very important implication: dark matter does not exist. His research makes sense of the behavior of gravity <em>without<\/em> the need for the existence of a dark matter particle.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strw.leidenuniv.nl\/\">Leiden Observatory<\/a> have studied <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-12-verlinde-theory-gravity.html\">more than 33,000 galaxies<\/a> to see if Verlinde\u2019s theory checks out\u2014and the results show that it is, in fact, more accurate at confirming the universe\u2019s gravity distribution than Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below to know more about Verlinde\u2019s alternate explanation to gravity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-new-theory-of-gravity-just-passed-its-first-test-heres-what-this-means-for-physics\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-new-theory-of-gravity-just-passed-its...r-physics\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verlinde\u2019s emergent gravity theory makes one very important implication: dark matter does not exist. His research makes sense of the behavior of gravity without the need for the existence of a dark matter particle. Researchers from the Leiden Observatory have studied more than 33,000 galaxies to see if Verlinde\u2019s theory checks out\u2014and the results show [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59430,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32797\/revisions\/59430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}