As is seen in Eq. 25, this is the same as the force between bodies in contact with each other. This resulted from the ratio of degrees of freedom that attract the body toward the other body (above) to the degrees of freedom that repel the body from the other body (below). Part of the degrees of freedom is blocked by the large body from repelling the other body. This disproportion in degrees of freedom results in a net gravitational entropic force on the body.