Gravity not an emergent force

I can't remember if I've ever highlighted this idea that gravity might be an emergent force and not a basic force of nature.  But, according to Archil Kobakhidze of The University of Melbourne in Australia, it turns out that it simply cannot be:

Kobakhidze argues that since each quantum particle must be described by a large number of other particles, this leads to a particular equation that describes the effect of gravity. 

But here's the thing: the conventional view of gravity leads to a different equation. 

In other words, the emergent and traditional views of gravity make different predictions about the gravitational force a quantum particle ought to experience. And that opens the way for an experimental test.

As it happens, physicists have been measuring the force of gravity on neutrons for ten yeas or so. And...wait for the drum roll... the results exactly match the predictions of traditional gravitational theory, says Kobakhidze. 

"Experiments on gravitational bound states of neutrons unambiguously disprove the entropic [ie, emergent] origin of gravitation," he says.