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Quantum Gravity — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Key: rickles2024qgravity
Authors: Rickles, Dean
Issued: 2024-2-26
Type: chapter
Container: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-gravity/

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Claims

qg-unresolved

Reconciling quantum theory and general relativity into a theory of quantum gravity has proven difficult because the two frameworks are prima facie incompatible, and no proposal has yet achieved complete theoretical and experimental vindication.

"The difficulties in reconciling quantum theory and gravity into some form of quantum gravity come from the prima facie incompatibility of general relativity, Einstein's relativistic theory of gravitation, and quantum field theory"

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