Nov 8, 2020
To Understand Gravity, Toss a Hard Drive into a Black Hole
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: computing, cosmology, particle physics, quantum physics
We probably think we know gravity pretty well. After all, we have more conscious experience with this fundamental force than with any of the others (electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces). But even though physicists have been studying gravity for hundreds of years, it remains a source of mystery.
In our video Why Is Gravity Different? We explore why this force is so perplexing and why it remains difficult to understand how Einstein’s general theory of relativity (which covers gravity) fits together with quantum mechanics.
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