Gravity's Gentle Grasp on the Quantum Realm For decades, physicists have struggled to reconcile quantum mechanics and gravity, two fundamental theories that explain different realms of phenomena.
The tiny, probabilistic world of atoms and particles is governed by quantum mechanics, while the large scale, deterministic universe of galaxies and stars is shaped by gravity.
But what happens when these realms overlap? Researchers at the University of Oxford and their international collaborators have now directly observed Einstein's gravity in the quantum world for the first time.