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Can we unify quantum mechanics and gravity?

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, , Citation Sabine Hossenfelder 2013 Phys. World 26 (10) 42 DOI 10.1088/2058-7058/26/10/37

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1 is an assistant professor of high-energy physics at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita), Sweden, and writes the popular blog Backreaction, e-mail hossi@nordita.org

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Abstract

The incompatibility of general relativity and quantum mechanics is perhaps the most important open problem in theoretical physics. Sabine Hossenfelder describes how physicists are working to unite these two perspectives in a theory of quantum gravity.

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