Moolman, Simon2015-02-062015-02-062015-02-06http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16920A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science. 01 September 2014.In this thesis I explore the evidence for whether gravity is an emergent phenomenon. I provide a review of black hole thermodynamics and demonstrate how it provides evidence that gravity is an emergent phe- nomenon. In addition I provide a review of Jacobson's calculation which shows how the Einstein eld equations can be interpreted as a thermo- dynamic equation of state. I then use Jacobson's work and the Seiberg- Witten map to derive a new gravitational equation of state which shows what gravity on a non-commutative manifold would look like.enGravity.Thermodynamics.Thesis