{"id":181456,"date":"2024-01-26T18:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unifying-gravity-and-quantum-mechanics-without-the-need-for-quantum-gravity"},"modified":"2024-01-26T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:24:41","slug":"unifying-gravity-and-quantum-mechanics-without-the-need-for-quantum-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unifying-gravity-and-quantum-mechanics-without-the-need-for-quantum-gravity","title":{"rendered":"Unifying gravity and quantum mechanics without the need for quantum gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unifying-gravity-and-quantum-mechanics-without-the-need-for-quantum-gravity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/oppenheim\/index.shtml\">Jonathan Oppenheim<\/a> at University College London has developed a new theoretical framework that aims to unify quantum mechanics and classical gravity \u2013 without the need for a theory of quantum gravity. Oppenheim\u2019s approach allows gravity to remain classical, while coupling it to the quantum world by a stochastic (random) mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>\\r \\r.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, theoretical physicists have struggled to reconcile Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity \u2013 which describes gravity \u2014 with quantum theory, which describes just about everything else in physics. A fundamental problem is that quantum theory assumes that space\u2013time is fixed, whereas general relativity says that space\u2013time changes dynamically in response to the presence of massive objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Oppenheim at University College London has developed a new theoretical framework that aims to unify quantum mechanics and classical gravity \u2013 without the need for a theory of quantum gravity. Oppenheim\u2019s approach allows gravity to remain classical, while coupling it to the quantum world by a stochastic (random) mechanism. \\r \\r. For decades, theoretical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}