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more like a ball rolling down a hill wants to stay at the bottom and not climb back up.

For "entropic gravity", gravity is not a force but a result of the desire of things wanting to go to a lower entropy state. For example, if you release gas into a room, it will quickly expand to fill the whole room. The atoms of the gas are not being pushed to fill the entire room. The 3 quantum forces (strong, weak, electromagnetic) barely act at those distances. Instead it it is caused by the atoms randomly going around and avoiding each other. So no force forces them to expand, just their desire to be at a lower entropy state. Another example is rubber bands. When you stretch a rubber band, the force pulling it back is caused by the entropy of the atoms. They don't want to be stretched as it increases their entropy. With "entropic gravity", the idea is that things with mass actually want to be near each other. That is their lower state. So, there isn't a force pushing them together, it is just where they want to end up and they don't want to leave.

No. It is based on the "entropic gravity" idea. A simplish way to explain it would be: imagine you have a long molecule. Each atom in the molecule is attached to two others so it forms a string like structure. You then put this molecule in a box and attach on end of the molecule to a side. After waiting some time, you look in the box and check the position of the molecule. If you do this millions of times, you'll find that it is more likely to be bunched up against the side that it is attached to. So, you could say that the side had a gravitational force on the molecule. The entropy of the situation causes the molecule to be near that one side. The main entropic gravity idea is based on holographic principles but this new paper says that they can explain entropic gravity using their own theory, called "relativistic transactional interpretation". That theory suggests that everything is just the outcome of stuff emitting photons to other stuff (there is a lot more to that). They can replace the holographic ideas of entropic gravity with this transactional idea and get the same outcome. Which is nice since we haven't yet been able to show that we live in a holographic universe. So removing the holographic ideas from entropic gravity makes it a little more viable.

I thought the church had said that it was always going to be built in Fairview.

So what was the point of the mediation if the city didn't do anything with it? And how does approving the plan work if the church is told to redesign it? What are they approving?