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A proposed experiment could bring scientists closer to answering the long-standing question of whether gravity is a classical or a quantum phenomenon. (physics.aps.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is a teally intresting thought! The observation should be really somewhere outside of galaxies, or where there is almost no gravitation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

not necessarily but at least far enough away that gravitational forces are way different. the sun contrls orbits for over 1000 au but neptune I think is the farthest circular orbit at 30 au. Our measurements at 1au have no practical gravitational variance at all but we assume light is uneffected by it.