Teleparallelism (also called teleparallel gravity), was an attempt by Einstein to base a unified theory of electromagnetism and gravity on the mathematical structure of distant parallelism, also referred to as absolute or teleparallelism. In this theory, a spacetime is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field. == Teleparallel spacetimes == The crucial new idea, for Einstein, was the introduction of a tetrad field, i.e., a set of four vector fields defined on all of such that for every the...

Entropic gravity is a theory in modern physics that describes gravity as an entropic force—not a fundamental interaction mediated by a quantum field theory and a gauge particle (like photons for the electromagnetic force, and gluons for the strong nuclear force), but a probabilistic consequence of physical systems' tendency to increase their entropy. The proposal has been intensely contested in the physics community but it has also sparked a new line of research into thermodynamic properties of gravity. == Origin == The probabilistic description of gravity has a history that goes back at least...