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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At first blush, this article seems to say that there's a solid hypothesis for which the math works consistently, and they know what they want to do in order to test that hypothesis. It's just a matter of designing and performing experiments.

But then, I read this:

[Co-author] Weller-Davies added: “A delicate interplay must exist if quantum particles such as atoms are able to bend classical spacetime. There must be a fundamental trade-off between the wave nature of atoms, and how large the random fluctuations in spacetime need to be.”

I know atoms aren't "particles," and I'm pretty damned sure they're also not quanta.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Atoms are composite particles. And they surely are quantum particles as you need quantum mechanics to describe their behavior