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Quanta Magazine

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Why don’t gravity and quantum physics get along? Hear

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discuss one of the universe’s deepest questions on episode 4 of The Joy of Why: listen.quantamagazine.org/joy-104-s?sid= Transcript:

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Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? | Quanta Magazine

Einstein’s description of curved space-time doesn’t easily mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses the quest for quantum gravity with host...

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Opened it up and immediately closed it because it's on Joe Rogan's network, Spotify. Really expected more from y'all, but I guess physics is still a boys club for a very good reason, huh?

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The problem is not reality, but the models. Quantum physics models are pretty unrealistic in many ways, which is why they don't work in a lot of situations. Every model is, obviously, unrealistic. But every model is also useful. We just need to sort out where.

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What would happen hypothetically speaking, if gravity waves went through the double slit experiment?