{"id":184290,"date":"2024-03-03T03:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/building-a-theory-of-quantum-gravity"},"modified":"2024-03-03T03:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:25:17","slug":"building-a-theory-of-quantum-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/building-a-theory-of-quantum-gravity","title":{"rendered":"Building a theory of quantum gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-a-theory-of-quantum-gravity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/newton.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences<\/a> (INI) in Cambridge hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newton.ac.uk\/event\/blh\/\" target=\"_blank\">research programme<\/a> on one of the most pressing problems in modern physics: to build a theory that can explain all the fundamental forces and particles of nature in one unifying mathematical framework. Such a theory of <em>quantum gravity<\/em> would combine two hugely successful frameworks on theoretical physics, which have so far eluded unification: quantum physics and Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newton.ac.uk\/event\/blh\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Black holes: bridges between number theory and holographic quantum information<\/em><\/a> programme focusses on black holes, which play a hugely important part in this area, on something called the <em>holographic principle<\/em>, and on surprising connections to pure mathematics. This collection of articles explores the central concepts involved and gives you a gist of the cutting edge research covered by the INI programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) in Cambridge hosted a research programme on one of the most pressing problems in modern physics: to build a theory that can explain all the fundamental forces and particles of nature in one unifying mathematical framework. Such a theory of quantum gravity would combine two hugely successful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184290","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=184290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}