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Nature 427, 482-484 (5 February 2004) | doi:10.1038/427482a
Quantum gravity: Back to the future
Philip Ball1
- Philip Ball is a consultant editor of Nature.
Abstract
From reruns of a nineteenth-century experiment performed with breathtaking precision, we may gain our first glimpses of the physics that lies beyond Einstein's theories of relativity. Philip Ball reports.
A negative result is not always bad news. In 1887, the physicists Albert Michelson and Edward Morley1 failed to detect the influence of the mysterious 'ether' — the medium through which light waves were thought to travel.
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