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Gravity meets quantum physics

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Quantum physics and gravitational physics remain separate due to the vastly different scales of time and space that they refer to. Now, research may point to links between them.

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Figure 1: Gravitational deflection.

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Adams, B. Gravity meets quantum physics. Nature Photon 9, 143–144 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.26

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