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Subject: Re: do you believe we can quantize gravity?
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:52:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:14:11 +0800, Sylvia Else wrote:

> On 21-Sept-24 2:10 am, kami wrote:
>> or is the question itself wrong in some way?
> 
> Consider the scenario where a photon goes through a double slit. A 
> photon has mass, and things with mass interact through the gravitational 
> field.

photon doesnt have mass, its a massless boson.


> So even after the photon passes through the double slit, there is going 
> to be some interaction with other things possessing mass. The task is to 
> quantitatively describe that interaction.
> 
> Whether you call that quantization of gravity or not, the resulting 
> theory is going to have to handle the quantum nature of photons.


i think that was done by feynman with qed?

 
> Of course, the problem we have at the moment is that we cannot perform 
> the required measurements to provide input to the theoreticians, nor 
> test any theories they may devise.
> 
> Sylvia.


hopefully someone can figure it out quickly, i want to visit
other star systems and these chemical rockets are dinosaurs.