{"id":238613,"date":"2026-06-09T02:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/tabletop-experiment-helps-reconcile-fundamental-physics"},"modified":"2026-06-09T02:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:41:26","slug":"tabletop-experiment-helps-reconcile-fundamental-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/tabletop-experiment-helps-reconcile-fundamental-physics","title":{"rendered":"Tabletop experiment helps reconcile fundamental physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tabletop-experiment-helps-reconcile-fundamental-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor Haocun Yu is something of a scientific diplomat. In a recent <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/yvlk-t1j9\" target=\"_blank\">publication<\/a>, she and her colleagues show how a tabletop experiment can bring together two bedrock physics theories that have never been fully reconciled.<\/p>\n<p>More than a century ago, Albert Einstein gave us the theory of general relativity, describing gravity in relation to space and time on a large scale. Within a decade, physicists were developing a deeper knowledge of quantum mechanics, the laws that govern the subatomic world, including atoms, photons and other microscopic systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuantum mechanics and general relativity are two of the most successful theories in physics, but they describe nature in very different ways,\u201d Yu explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Haocun Yu is something of a scientific diplomat. In a recent Physical Review Letters publication, she and her colleagues show how a tabletop experiment can bring together two bedrock physics theories that have never been fully reconciled. More than a century ago, Albert Einstein gave us the theory of general relativity, describing gravity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238613","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}