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Eight decades have passed since physicists realized that the theories of quantum mechanics and gravity don’t fit together, and the puzzle of how to combine the two remains unsolved. In the last few ...

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I just won a bet I made in 2002 with ...