Re: !elbbabonhceT
Well... once you get into quantum mechanics, things get really strange.
They pretty much throw out gravity.
Why? Well, it doesn't play nice with the other fundamental forces at that level. Keeps causing all these nice nifty equations that seem to work to spit out nonsense - generally based around non-conservation of energy (hence, nonsense) - and that, for some odd reasons, disturbs those not already disturbed.
String theory doesn't have that "problem" - it can deal with gravity that close up just fine - but there's a catch: nobody has yet been able to devise an experiment that anyone thinks might be possible in anything remotely resembling a reasonable timeframe that could locate any observational differences between the two at the level QM deals with....
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Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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