{"id":75495,"date":"2018-01-22T14:42:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T22:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/this-new-experiment-could-finally-unite-the-two-biggest-theories-in-physics"},"modified":"2018-01-22T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T22:42:33","slug":"this-new-experiment-could-finally-unite-the-two-biggest-theories-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/this-new-experiment-could-finally-unite-the-two-biggest-theories-in-physics","title":{"rendered":"This New Experiment Could Finally Unite The Two Biggest Theories in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-experiment-could-finally-unite-the-two-biggest-theories-in-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An idea for an experiment that could unite the stubborn fields of quantum mechanics and general relativity has been given new life by two groups of physicists from the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that quantum theory doesn\u2019t play well with gravity is a massive stumbling block in physics, one that has long eluded some of the greatest minds in science.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics is the modelling of discrete particles as probabilities that don\u2019t truly exist until we\u2019ve nailed down a measurement. Not that quantum physics is vague \u2013 a century of testing has made it one of the most robust theories in science.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-mechanics-unify-general-relativity-gravitational-field-experiment-proof\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-mechanics-unify-general-...ment-proof<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An idea for an experiment that could unite the stubborn fields of quantum mechanics and general relativity has been given new life by two groups of physicists from the UK. The fact that quantum theory doesn\u2019t play well with gravity is a massive stumbling block in physics, one that has long eluded some of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75495","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\/75495","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}