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0:00 Opening 3:12 Introduction 6:21 Beginning of lecture 7:48 Newton's gravity 20:39 Einstein's gravity 29:49 Four interactions 34:06 The relationship between gravity and thermodynamics 47:15 Entropy 1:02:44 The holographic principle 1:16: 15 Vacuum 1:22:07 Verification 1:34:45 Acknowledgments and organizational matters 1:36:00 Discussion 2:26:42 Conclusion Gravity is the only force that acts on all bodies and particles without exception. The most successful theory describing gravity is Einstein's general relativity. In 2009, the Dutch physicist Erik Verlinde tried to explain gravity as a statistical manifestation of the microworld. How viable is his theory? How do its predictions differ from general relativity? Can it become an intermediary to connect the world of gravity with the world of quantum? Petr Kulhánek was born in 1959, studied mathematical physics at the Faculty of Arts, UK. In 2005, he became a professor of applied physics at the FEL of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He is a member of the editorial boards of 4 physics journals (Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, Astropis, Vesmír, Aldebaran Bulletin), a member of the International Astronomical Union, the Czech Astronomical Society. He is the founder and president of the Aldebaran Group for Astrophysics. In 2010 he won the Littera Astronomica prize. He deals with numerical simulations in plasma physics and plasma theory.