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We argue that the main reason of crisis in quantum theory is that nature, which is fundamentally discrete and even finite, is described by classical mathematics involving the notions of infinitely small, continuity etc. Moreover, since…

General Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Felix M. Lev

We show that if a discrete quantum gravity is not classical, then it cannot be generated by an isometric dynamics. In particular, we show that if the quantum measure {\mu} (or equivalently the decoherence functional) is generated by an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-06 Stan Gudder

t is well known that the difference between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Theory appears most crucially in the non Classical spin half of the former theory and the Wilson-Sommerfelt quantization rule. We argue that this is symptomatic of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

In Nature, 646, 813 (2025), Aziz and Howl claim that classical (unquantised) gravity produces entanglement. We show that their model does not produce entanglement. Even if the model produced entanglement, it would be mediated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Chiara Marletto , Jonathan Oppenheim , Vlatko Vedral , Elizabeth Wilson

We review recent progress with the understanding of quantum fields, including ideas how gravity might turn out to be a renormalizable theory after all.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Dirk Kreimer

Noncommutative field theories are a class of theories beyond the standard model of elementary particle physics. Their importance may be summarized in two facts. Firstly as field theories on noncommutative spacetimes they come with natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-24 Earnest Akofor

A one-parameter deformation of Einstein?Hilbert gravity with an inverse Riemann curvature term is derived as the classical limit of quantum gravity compatible with an accelerating universe. This result is based on the investigation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic P. Schuller , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We study a class of theories in which space-time is treated classically, while interacting with quantum fields. These circumvent various no-go theorems and the pathologies of semi-classical gravity, by being linear in the density matrix and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-15 Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

Whether gravity is quantized remains an open question. To shed light on this problem, various Gedankenexperiments have been proposed. One popular example is an interference experiment with a massive system that interacts gravitationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Erik Rydving , Erik Aurell , Igor Pikovski

Quantum mechanics is nonlocal. Classical mechanics is local. Consequently classical mechanics can not explain all quantum phenomena. Conversely, it is cumbersome to use quantum mechanics to describe classical phenomena. Not only are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Gisin , Todd A. Brun , Marco Rigo

The search for a theory of quantum gravity is the most fundamental problem in all of theoretical physics, but there are as yet no experimental results at all to guide this endeavor. What seems to be needed is a pragmatic way to test if…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-23 Johan Hansson , Stephane Francois

The question of whether gravity is fundamentally quantum remains one of the most profound open problems in modern physics. A recently explored approach consists in testing gravity's ability to entangle quantum systems, which requires…

Three problems stand in the way of deriving classical theories from quantum mechanics: those of realist interpretation, of classical properties and of quantum measurement. Recently, we have identified some tacit assumptions that lie at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Petr Hajicek

The gravity is classically formulated as the geometric curvature of the space-time in general relativity which is completely different from the other well-known physical forces. Since seeking a quantum framework for the gravity is a great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-29 Cao H. Nam

Canonical coupling between classical and quantum systems cannot result in reversible equations, rather it leads to irreversible master equations. Coupling of quantized non-relativistic matter to gravity is illustrated by a simplistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Lajos Diósi

We investigate whether the equivalence theorem in f(R)-type gravity is valid also in quantum theory. It is shown that, if the canonical quantization is assumed, equivalence does not hold in quantum theory.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-12 Y. Ezawa , H. Iwasaki , Y. Ohkuwa , S. Watanabe , N. Yamada , T. Yano

A possible way toward the quantization of a weak gravitational field inspired by the imaginary-time field theory is discussed. The analogies of the general relativity in the canonical formulation with the thermodynamic geometry and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-15 Yi-Cheng Huang

Semi-classical gravity attempts to define a hybrid theory in which a classical gravitational field is coupled to a unitarily evolving quantum state. Although semi-classical gravity is inconsistent with observation, a viable theory of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-21 Adrian Kent

It is believed that gravity will be explained in the framework of the existing quantum theory when one succeeds in eliminating divergencies at large momenta or small distances (although the phenomenon of gravity has been observed only at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-28 Felix Lev

The quantization of the gravitational field is discussed within the exact uncertainty approach. The method may be described as a Hamilton-Jacobi quantization of gravity. It differs from previous approaches that take the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Marcel Reginatto