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The Place Where Physics Stops Working

Our best theories stop giving complete answers.

General relativity and quantum mechanics are both spectacularly successful, and they do not get along where gravity is strong and distances are tiny. That seam is where physics admits it is incomplete.

Infographic: The Place Where Physics Stops Working

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Singularities in classical general relativity and the earliest moments of the Big Bang indicate limits where current theories are incomplete, especially without a complete theory of quantum gravity.

Expected concepts

  • ?What replaces a singularity in a complete theory?
  • ?What happened in the first instants of the universe?
  • ?Why is unifying gravity and quantum mechanics so hard?

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When this report is written, every measured or inferred claim will ship with a source and a confidence badge. No exceptions.

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