{"id":183475,"date":"2024-02-23T21:31:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T03:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/quantum-gravity-could-help-unite-quantum-mechanics-with-general-relativity-at-last"},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:31:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T03:31:54","slug":"quantum-gravity-could-help-unite-quantum-mechanics-with-general-relativity-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/quantum-gravity-could-help-unite-quantum-mechanics-with-general-relativity-at-last","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Quantum gravity\u2019 could help unite quantum mechanics with general relativity at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-gravity-could-help-unite-quantum-mechanics-with-general-relativity-at-last3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the primary reasons for this dilemma is that, while three of the universe\u2019s four fundamental forces \u2014 electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force \u2014 have quantum descriptions, there is no quantum theory of the fourth: Gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, an international team has made headway in addressing this imbalance by successfully detecting a weak gravitational pull on a tiny particle using a new technique. The researchers believe this could be the first tentative step on a path that leads to a theory of \u201cquantum gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a century, scientists have tried and failed to understand how gravity and quantum mechanics work together,\u201d Tim Fuchs, team member and a scientist at the University of Southampton, said in a statement. \u201cBy understanding quantum gravity, we could solve some of the mysteries of our universe \u2014 like how it began, what happens inside black holes, or uniting all forces into one big theory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the primary reasons for this dilemma is that, while three of the universe\u2019s four fundamental forces \u2014 electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force \u2014 have quantum descriptions, there is no quantum theory of the fourth: Gravity. Now, however, an international team has made headway in addressing this imbalance by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183475","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=183475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}