Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

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TU Wien researchers have uncovered a quantum twist to the paths particles take through spacetime — one that could finally ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity does a great job at explaining gravity but it is thought to be incomplete ...

A long-standing challenge in physics has been to integrate gravity into the Standard Model, which successfully describes the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces. The difficulty lies in the ...

For decades, physicists have faced one of science’s greatest puzzles: merging quantum mechanics, which describes tiny particles, with general relativity, which explains the universe’s vast structures.

In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity into the same mathematical language as the other forces of nature. While the ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Last year, Jonathan Oppenheim’s theory of post-quantum gravity was the only theory that made it into my Best of 2024 summary. Post-quantum gravity is one of the most ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if you analyze the ashes of the fire, the smoke and the flames to re-create ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...