Quantum gravity theory is untested experimentally. Could it be tested with tabletop experiments? While the common feeling is pessimistic, a detailed inquiry shows it possible to sidestep the onerous ...

The economy has been sputtering for years; it sure could use a boost. Planck-scale physics is the coming thing in basic science. How big a boost could the economy get from Planck-scale physics? A new ...

ON A human scale, an atom is inconceivably small. But size is relative. On the Planck scale—the smallest that physical theory recognises—atoms are huge. At this scale, named after Max Planck, the ...

Fermilab scientists have been conducting experiments to look for quantum fluctuations of space and time at the smallest scale imaginable according to known physics. At this limit, the Planck length, ...

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Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum physics are expected to merge at the Planck-scale of extremely high energies and on very short distances. Now scientists have proposed a new quantum experiment ...

If you divide the matter in the Universe into smaller and smaller constituents, you'll eventually reach a limit when you hit a fundamental, indivisible particle. All macroscopic objects can be divided ...