Fuzzy pulsars could help unmask quantum gravity

• Autores: Jesse Emspak
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3116, 2017, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • General relativity, which describes massive objects like black holes, and quantum mechanics, which governs subatomic particles, are tremendously successful in their own realms. But no one has yet come up with a way to unite them. A theory of quantum gravity is one of the most sought after in physics. Several candidates exist, but current Earth-based experiments can't test them directly. Now, Michael Kavic at Long Island University in New York and his colleagues have devised a cosmic test. Their apparatus: a binary system made up of a black hole and a pulsar