Dutch theoretical physicist Erik Verlinde proposed in 2010 that gravity is an emergent entropic force and that dark matter effects arise from the entanglement structure of spacetime itself. The radical idea generated enormous attention at the University of Amsterdam, but concrete predictions have been difficult to reconcile with galaxy cluster dynamics and gravitational lensing data.

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