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From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
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Subject: Re: do you believe we can quantize gravity?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:14:11 +0800
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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.

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.

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.