quantum
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The findings do not show that gravity is classical, and they do not rule out quantum gravity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Nanocrystals have become an important part of modern materials science, with quantum dots helping inspire the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Rather, it helps us identify which experimental signatures would genuinely require a quantum description of gravity and which ones could arise from more familiar physics. That distinction is crucial for designing future experiments."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Our work does not tell us that such experiments rule out quantum gravity," says Magdalena Zych of Stockholm University and a co-author on the paper.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Like quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity was born in light; this time it was the speed of light that caused the trouble.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
In a semiconductor field-effect transistor, there is a two-dimensional electron channel where a collective charge-density quanta, i.e., two-dimensional plasmons, exist.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2023
The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023
General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
Sometimes the light quanta seemed to measure out at three or four meters long; sometimes they appeared to be “just a little bundle of energy,” Beams recalled.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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