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Scientists closer to finding quantum gravity theory
- seanhunter 3y agoThis is interesting. As a non-physicist, one sentence in particular was startling to me. "From here we will start scaling the source down using this technique until we reach the quantum world on both sides." How does this work? Do the laws of physics scale from the "big/classical" world into the quantum world as you just make things smaller? I guess I thought there must be boundaries where there were abrupt changes.
- 3abiton 3y agoBut this is not new, there have been decades of effort in this field (countering the dark energy theory), and in my Uni's physics department we always had the QT guy vs the DE guy trying to convert students to their legions.
- bigredpanda1888 3y agoI was under the impression that we would need extremely large particle colliders to test theories of quantum gravity? This article makes it seem as though there has been some great leap in technology to make this type of measurement possible?
- tonetegeatinst 3y agoNot a scientist but I know they made a laser accelerator that was similar to a Wakefield accelerator. This drastically reduces the physical footprint. A university has plenty of space as they are about the size of the ASML machine roughly