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Quantum gravity question (split from Unified Spacetime Theory)

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7 hours ago, Markus Hanke said:

I’m wondering, do you yourself understand what the AI has generated there?

The crucial ingredient in here would be the potential energy function Veff, without which one can’t write out the full Lagrangian. Do you have an explicit expression for this, or at least a way to find that expression for a given physical scenario?

I have wondered, if the reason gravity doesn't work at the quantum scale, is bc the shape of spacetime at that scale, is essentially flat/shapeless.

17 hours ago, dimreepr said:

I have wondered, if the reason gravity doesn't work at the quantum scale, is bc the shape of spacetime at that scale, is essentially flat/shapeless.

Gravity does physically work at quantum scales also; at least we don’t have a reason to believe otherwise, though actually measuring it is very difficult, due to how weak it is at those scales. The question is only how does it work, and that’s what we don’t know. A quantum system can be put into a superposition of states, but if you try to formulate a corresponding superposition of geometries in the context of GR, then things just don’t work out nicely. So the problem is that our usual tools that work so well for the other three fundamental interactions, give us only gibberish when applied to gravity.

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