Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-02-02
Commun. Theore. Phys. Vol.54, No.4 (2010) pp641-646
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
V1: 4 pages, comments/criticisms welcomed; V2: references added; V3: typos and minor corrections? V4? substantial changes in S
Scientific paper
Erik Verlinde recently proposed an idea about the thermodynamic origin of gravity. Though this is a beautiful idea which may resolve many long standing problems in the theories of gravity, it also raises many other problems. In this article I will comment on some of the problems of Verlinde's proposal with special emphasis on the thermodynamical origin of the principle of relativity. It is found that there is a large group of hidden symmetries of thermodynamics which contains the Poincare group of the spacetime for which space is emergent. This explains the thermodynamic origin of the principle of relativity.
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