For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...
Spacetime itself would also need to be “quantized,” or broken down into constituent parts. This is what the notorious string theory attempts to do, as does loop quantum gravity, currently considered a ...
A groundbreaking study published in Science Advances has confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s predictions from over a century ...
It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...
In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.
A team of scientists has used X-ray and gamma-ray observations of some of the most distant objects in the Universe to better understand the nature of space and time. Their results set limits on the ...
For over a century, scientists have been intrigued to decode the perplexing scenery behind contemporary physics. It's been up for many years, and yet the experts still have no idea how to bridge the ...
A new theory suggests that the unification between quantum physics and general relativity has eluded scientists for 100 years because huge "fluctuations" in space and time mean that gravity won't play ...
There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-established theories describe gravity’s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature is essential for ...
How to build a particle collider the size of the solar system. To observe the quantum nature of gravity and of spacetime itself, we need a particle collider the size of the solar system. Or we could ...
Champaign-Urbana art lovers and physics enthusiasts alike gathered at the Link Art Gallery Monday evening to explore physics-themed projects created by students from academic backgrounds across the ...
TU Wien researchers have uncovered a quantum twist to the paths particles take through spacetime — one that could finally ...