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quantum gravity

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noun

  1. physics a theory of the gravitational interaction that involves quantum mechanics to explain the force

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Loop quantum gravity views it differently, in a way that, Mr. Rovelli says, was anticipated by Aristotle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

He instead favors an approach called loop quantum gravity, which involves a new understanding of space itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

One of the major puzzles in fundamental physics involves the enormous difference between the scale of the universe we experience and the Planck scale, the fundamental energy scale associated with quantum gravity.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

An observation that appears to reveal quantum gravity might, in some cases, also be explained without requiring gravity itself to behave quantum mechanically.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

However, the methods that I and other people were using in 1974 were not able to answer questions such as whether singularities would occur in quantum gravity.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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