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URL: https://www.quantumuniverse.nl/de-zwaartekracht-als-entropische-kracht (PDF download link on page; not downloaded) Marcel Vonk, "De zwaartekracht als entropische kracht", 10 Oct 2012 (reprinted from N!, Eindhoven physics-engineering society magazine, June 2012). Dutch popular article.

Findings [web]: explains the entropic-force idea with a 7-segment polymer model (length 3 and 5 most probable; lengths 1 and 7 one configuration each) - same analogy as the paper's Section 2; places it after 't Hooft's holographic principle and Maldacena 1997; says Verlinde's idea is "not a theory of quantum gravity" but a new way of thinking about gravity applying to any theory containing gravity and QM; reports that applying it to the universe gives extra energy/matter amounts "surprisingly close" to measured dark-matter and dark-energy fractions (author's characterization, 2012, pre-1611.02269). Useful as a plain-language secondary for the primer (reader profile). Supportive commentary by a Dutch string theorist (Amsterdam), not an independent test.