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Jonathan Oppenheim

Jonathan Oppenheim

Professor of Physics, University College London

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The century-long quest to reconcile quantum mechanics with gravity

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Proponent of a competing "postquantum classical gravity" theory

For a century, physics has rested on two incompatible frameworks: quantum mechanics (governing atoms and subatomic particles) and Einstein's general relativity (describing gravity as spacetime curvature). Every attempt to merge them produced mathematical infinities or unmeasurable predictions. Vienna University of Technology's "q-desic equation" (Physical Review D) may break this deadlock: quantum corrections to particle paths become observable at cosmological distances when the cosmological constant is included.

Updated May 30