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American Physical Society

Quantum Gravity

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Scientists are trying to figure out to what extent a new theory of quantum gravity will reproduce general relativity -- the theory that currently explains, to very high accuracy, how masses curve spacetime and create the influence of gravity.

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Image copyright American Physical Society, Illustration: Carin Cain

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