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Gravity meets quantum physics

Quantum physics and gravitational physics remain separate due to the vastly different scales of time and space that they refer to. Now, research may point to links between them.

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Adams, B. Gravity meets quantum physics. Nature Photon 9, 143–144 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.26

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