Perhaps one clue as to why it is so much harder to quantize gravity than everything else is that other force fields in nature exhibit a feature called “locality” ... But “there’s at least a bunch of theoretical evidence that that’s not how gravity works.”
Really? I was under the impression that gravitational waves propagate at very nearly the speed of light.
Also, this article doesn't do a very good job of explaining why people are so certain gravity can be quantized. Gravity as a deformation of spacetime seems like a perfectly reasonable model to work with. Why should we think it doesn't reflect reality?
I was under the impression that gravitational waves propagate at very nearly the speed of light.
There was a speaker for January's Silicon Valley Astronomical Society lecture on this, and I asked him that very question. It turns out that the gravitational wave hit us before there was detectable change in light emissions.
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Really? I was under the impression that gravitational waves propagate at very nearly the speed of light.
Also, this article doesn't do a very good job of explaining why people are so certain gravity can be quantized. Gravity as a deformation of spacetime seems like a perfectly reasonable model to work with. Why should we think it doesn't reflect reality?