Latest Quantum gravity Stories

KILAUEA, Hawaii, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking paper published last week sheds new light on the theory of gravity and the potential to significantly impact global issues facing the human race, including alternative energy sources. Nassim Haramein, Director of Research at the Hawaii Institute for Unified Physics (HIUP), has authored a paper titled "Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass," which has been validated and published in the peer review journal, Physical...

John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Two of the greatest scientific achievements of the last century were the establishment of the theories of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, both of which have withstood continual experimental scrutiny. However, a problem remains. The two theories seem to be at odds with each other. Researchers, for decades, have sought a theory that would combine the two realms – the large-scale gravity fields, and the tiny...

Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum physics are expected to merge at the Planck-scale of extremely high energies and on very short distances. At this scale, new phenomena could arise. However, the Planck-scale is so remote from current experimental capabilities that tests of quantum gravity are widely believed to be nearly impossible. Now an international collaboration between the groups of Caslav Brukner and Markus Aspelmeyer at the University of Vienna and Myungshik Kim at Imperial...

LIPTOVSKY MIKULAS, Slovakia, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Theologian Miroslav Halza is making a name for himself by clarifying the mysteries of the Holy Bible in simple, logical terms that make sense to layman and scientist alike. In his previous book, The Chronology of Revelation, he explained the concept of "time" for both the visible and invisible worlds, based on elementary particles defined by quantum physics. In his latest book, he presents these same particles as carriers for other...

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle sets limits on Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance,' new research findsResearchers have uncovered a fundamental link between the two defining properties of quantum physics. Stephanie Wehner of Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies and the National University of Singapore and Jonathan Oppenheim of the United Kingdom's University of Cambridge published their work today in the latest edition of the journal Science.The result is being heralded as a...

Does an exciting but controversial new model of quantum gravity reproduce Einstein's theory of general relativity? Scientists at Texas A&M University in the US explore this question in a paper appearing in Physical Review Letters and highlighted with a Viewpoint in the August 24th issue of Physics (http://physics.aps.org)."If it ain't broke, don't fix it," sums up fairly well how many scientists have viewed Einstein's theory of general relativity. The theory, which Einstein...

Despite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper published in the August 20 issue of Physical Review Letters, the flagship journal of the American Physical Society, Dartmouth researchers propose a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory on a much-tinier scale than their celestial counterparts.The new method to create a tiny quantum sized...

Quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity are both extremely accurate theories of how the universe works, but all attempts to combine the two into a unified theory have ended in failure. When physicists try to calculate the properties of a quantum theory of gravity, they find quantities that become infinite -- infinities that are so bad they can't be removed by mathematical gambits that work in other areas of physics.Now, Zvi Bern, John Carrasco, and Henrik Johanssen at...

Physicists at Penn State have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes, those regions of space where gravity is so strong that, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, not even light can escape. The team's findings pave the way toward ending a decades-long debate sparked by renowned physicist Steven Hawking. The team's work will be published in the 20 May 2008 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.In the 1970s, Hawking showed that black...