NASA's FERMI, Space, and Time
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 13:49
in Physics & Chemistry
Is it impossible to pin down both where and when an event takes place, due to quantum gravity effects? Shahn Majid explains why this may be. In my recent posts I have emphasized ideas on the cutting edge of fundamental science which have testable predictions or other contact with experiment, rather than being merely fashionable. Now, up until recently it was widely assumed that ideas for the ‘Mount Everest’ challenge of quantum gravity, as Martin Rees puts it in his review of the multi-authored book On Space and Time, could never be tested experimentally. read more
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