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Does gravity make rainbows?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics - Is There a Solution?

This is an attempt to incorporate that quantum uncertainty into the theory of gravity. It's not clear yet whether this might lead to a solution, but there's a little bit of a sketch of an argument for why it might. So particles with really high energy would bend differently than particles with low energy as they move through that uncertain space. And again, how does that help bring together quantum mechanics and gravity? If this is true and you see it and you confirm it's actually part of our universe, for example, that gives you a very strong hand. We do not know if gravity operates that way if it really can be probabilistic or not.

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