Some enmities are so powerful, they could never be resolved.

Here’s the part where they explain the theoretical solution

Under Oppenheim’s theory, however, space-time wouldn’t just be smooth, it would become sort of wobbly and unpredictable.

Here’s where it becomes testable. This wobbliness would result in fluctuations of measurable properties that are larger than the fluctuations predicted by quantum theory.

With the right experiment, physicists could look for those fluctuations.

We have shown that if space-time doesn’t have a quantum nature, then there must be random fluctuations in the curvature of space-time which have a particular signature that can be verified experimentally," says physicist Zach Weller-Davies of University College London.

“In both quantum gravity and classical gravity, space-time must be undergoing violent and random fluctuations all around us, but on a scale which we haven’t yet been able to detect. But if space-time is classical, the fluctuations have to be larger than a certain scale, and this scale can be determined by another experiment where we test how long we can put a heavy atom in superposition of being in two different locations.”

I think they don’t really do a good job of explaining it, so if anyone here knows more about it, please share!

  • Corkyskog
    2·
    11 months ago

    Can the universe even expand faster than the “speed of light”? Not saying anyone is claiming that, just a thought I had.

      • Corkyskog
        2·
        11 months ago

        Cool. I was hoping that would be the answer, so that I could ask, How do we know?

        • Sylver@lemmy.world
          6·
          11 months ago

          The universe expanding faster than the speed of light is the current theory, so there should be endless amounts of research to pursue if you would like to figure out how/why.

          In layman’s terms, the actual matter of the universe is not “moving away from eachother” in the classical sense. The space in between said matter is growing/expanding, possibly due to “dark energy” which is just the word we give to describe the act of the universe expanding. So “dark energy” is just a placeholder until we figure out how/why, but that is what you should look more into if you want to find out more.

          • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de
            3·
            11 months ago

            Kurzgesagt just did a video about gravity versus dark energy and how that will change the end of the universe. Pretty cool thought experiments.