For close to a century, physicists have pursued a way to unite gravity with quantum mechanics. Known as quantum gravity, this ...

Dark energy, which is believed to be responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe, may be a manifestation of the quantum properties of space itself. Savvas Kushiappas, a physicist from ...

Our universe emerged when spacetime’s building blocks “crystallized” into being, according to a controversial theory.

This idea may help address the black hole information paradox, especially the problem that black holes seem to violate a key ...

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Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...

Diagrammatic representation of the entropic quantum gravity action. The action for gravity is given by the quantum relative entropy between the metric of the manifold and the metric induced by the ...

A recent study proposes that gravity, the force shaping galaxies and anchoring planets, might not be fundamental after all. Instead, it could arise from entropy, a measure of disorder. The theory, ...

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers propose an experimental approach that could finally determine whether gravity is fundamentally classical or quantum in nature. The nature of gravity ...

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