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By Andrew Zimmerman Jones, About.com Guide to Physics

The Long Road to Quantum Gravity

Friday June 30, 2006
Quantum gravity is an intriguing area of study, in which scientists try to reconcile quantum physics with the theory of general relativity. The specific emphasis of quantum gravity is reconciling gravity, which is currently described by general relativity, with the other fundamental forces of physics.

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July 5, 2006 at 11:15 am
(1) Shantilal Goradia says:

Gravity is nothing except long range manifestation of short range nuclear forces consistent with 1919 paper of Einstein, explained quantum mechanically in http://www.arXiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0507130. The contrary view is based on strictly philosophical grounds based on numerological comparisons of the intensity of other forces leading to an assumption that gravity is a funcamental interaction. There is no justification for such an assumption. It has no proof.

July 14, 2006 at 5:42 pm
(2) Jeff Kuhl says:

hey you guy ever think that a graviton is gravity moving at the speed of light? please email me back

July 19, 2006 at 10:47 pm
(3) Tyciol@hotmail.com says:

Gravity is faster than light, that’s why black holes can exist. I don’t really think applying a speed to it is even appropriate, it’s a force. Probably instant in affecting things, or more accurately, constant.

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