{"id":227249,"date":"2025-12-16T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/laser-light-and-the-quantum-nature-of-gravity-proposed-experiment-could-measure-graviton-energy-exchange"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:26:59","slug":"laser-light-and-the-quantum-nature-of-gravity-proposed-experiment-could-measure-graviton-energy-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/laser-light-and-the-quantum-nature-of-gravity-proposed-experiment-could-measure-graviton-energy-exchange","title":{"rendered":"Laser light and the quantum nature of gravity: Proposed experiment could measure graviton energy exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-light-and-the-quantum-nature-of-gravity-proposed-experiment-could-measure-graviton-energy-exchange.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of light and cause tiny distortions in space-time. Albert Einstein predicted their existence, and the first direct experimental observation dates from 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Prof. Ralf Sch\u00fctzhold, theoretical physicist at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), is going one step further. He has conceived an experiment through which gravitational waves can not only be observed but even manipulated. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/xd97-c6d7\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, the idea could also deliver new insights into the hitherto only conjectured quantum nature of gravity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGravity affects everything, including light,\u201d says Sch\u00fctzhold. And this interaction also occurs when gravitational waves and light waves meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of light and cause tiny distortions in space-time. Albert Einstein predicted their existence, and the first direct experimental observation dates from 2015. Now, Prof. Ralf Sch\u00fctzhold, theoretical physicist at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), is going [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227249","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}