http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_gravityThe concept was originally proposed by Andrei Sakharov in 1967.
Sakharov observed that many condensed matter systems give rise to emergent phenomena which are identical to general relativity. For example, crystal defects can look like curvature and torsion in an Einstein–Cartan spacetime. This allows one to create a theory of gravity with torsion from aWorld Crystal model of spacetime[1] in which the lattice spacing is of the order of a Planck length.