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Is time an illusion?

Great Mysteries of Physics

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The Future of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity

Cura-marletto and Vlattke-Redral from the University of Oxford in the UK have come up with an interesting idea for a future experiment. They want to test whether two masses such as tiny crystals could become entangled, spookily connected according to the rules of quantum mechanics by having gravity acting on them. This would suggest that gravity could truly have quantum effects. And it would involve putting the masses in a super precision where they will be in a mix of different locations simultaneously. While this isn't an experiment that physicists are able to perform today, it could be worth waiting for. If clocks could indeed be in a superposition of taking at different rates simultaneously, it

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