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From what I understand of the article, it is still totally undecided, and that is what this experiment aims to address, although it still won't provide any insi
by Santosh83 9y ago
From what I understand of the article, it is still totally undecided, and that is what this experiment aims to address, although it still won't provide any insight as to the exact quantum nature of gravity. It will merely decide if it is indeed quantised. And even there, Freeman Dyson appears to disagree (according to the article)...
- sulam 9y agoDyson seems to be making a more abstract argument — that if the domains where a graviton could be detected are inaccessible to us, then they effectively do not exist (if a tree falls in a forest...). At least that’s what I took away from the description in the article and his dismissal of the proposed experiment as not having a bearing on his objections.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoIt won't even necessarily decide if gravity is quantized. If it gets a positive result then it will show that gravity is quantized, but a negative result doesn't mean that gravity isn't quantized, merely that the experiment failed.