In July 2011 Verlinde presented the further development of his ideas in a contribution to the Strings 2011 conference, including an explanation for the origin of dark matter [REF].
Verlinde's article also attracted a large amount of media exposure,[REF][REF] and led to immediate follow-up work in cosmology,[REF][REF] the dark energy hypothesis,[REF] cosmological acceleration,[REF][REF] cosmological inflation,[REF] and loop quantum gravity [REF].