Quantum gravity: Back to the future
@article{Ball2004QuantumGB, title={Quantum gravity: Back to the future}, author={Philip Ball}, journal={Nature}, year={2004}, volume={427}, pages={482-484} }
From reruns of a nineteenth-century experiment performed with breathtaking precision, we may gain our first glimpses of the physics that lies beyond Einstein's theories of relativity. Philip Ball reports.
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