# Tests of quantum gravity from observations of γ-ray bursts

@article{AmelinoCamelia1998TestsOQ,
title={Tests of quantum gravity from observations of $\gamma$-ray bursts},
author={Giovanni Amelino-Camelia and John Ellis and Nick E. Mavromatos and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos and Subir Kumar Sarkar},
journal={Nature},
year={1998},
volume={393},
pages={763-765}
}
• Published 25 June 1998
• Physics
• Nature
The recent confirmation that at least some γ-ray bursts originate at cosmological distances suggests that the radiation from them could be used to probe some of the fundamental laws of physics. Here we show that γ-ray bursts will be sensitive to an energy dispersion predicted by some approaches to quantum gravity. Many of the bursts have structure on relatively rapid timescales, which means that in principle it is possible to look for energy-dependent dispersion of the radiation, manifested in…
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