Generality and relativistic extension of thermal-mediator force-noise conclusions

Characterize the generality of the claim that interactions produced by thermal mediator systems necessarily entail observable thermal force fluctuations, by establishing whether this behavior holds across a broad class of entropic gravity models and, in particular, by developing and analyzing relativistic formulations to test the claim in the relativistic regime.

Background

The paper develops explicit quantum models in which Newtonian gravity emerges as an entropic interaction mediated by thermalized qubits or oscillators. A key qualitative conclusion is that, because the interaction is mediated by a thermal system, the resulting force exhibits intrinsic thermal fluctuations (noise), leading to observable consequences that can differ from unitary, noiseless predictions of perturbative quantum gravity.

While the authors provide nonrelativistic constructions and argue that the force-noise feature appears robust (including at a ‘purely entropic’ point in their local model), they emphasize that fully establishing the breadth of this conclusion—especially in relativistic settings—remains to be done. A systematic treatment would clarify how model-independent these noise predictions are and whether they persist in relativistic entropic gravity frameworks.