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}
}
  • P. Ball
  • Published 5 February 2004
  • Physics, Education
  • Nature
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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