Here&#x27;s a recent lecture by Erik Verlinde in which he tries to explain both dark energy and dark matter using entropic gravity:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PSYXt3Xu3xI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PSYXt3Xu3xI</a><p>I&#x27;m not a physicist, but he seems to be invoking similar ideas to Raamsdonk: that spacetime and gravity are emergent properties that boil down to entanglement somehow. But the loop quantum gravity people have been saying something like that for ages. And Stephen Wolfram and Konrad Zuse etc. And we have people like Lubos Motl on the other hand to ridicule all of the above.<p>Anyone able to give a big picture overview of what&#x27;s been happening the last few years in this somewhat rarefied world? Who are we, the intelligent lay public, to trust?